Marc J. Dunkelman

Like, it seems to me that, like, the neo-Brandesians, left liberal Elizabeth Warren, Lena Kahn world, like, I think that they're fundamentally sympathetic.

Yeah.

They want to do that.

Right.

And, like, I don't think that the abundance people, like, don't think that we should take on –

monopolies right so so like it actually feels to me like this should be a topic on which we can all agree and like just the sort of sense that we uh we we're democrats so we're gonna find stuff to you know circular firing squad and and ever but but but but but anyway i i

I don't, you probably have a better explanation for me than why we're fighting about this stuff.

I mean, this is...

the great challenge that I feel like I'm facing now and that I would hope all progressives would engage in like a really productive discussion about.

Because clearly we don't want to go back to the Robert Moses, Lloyd Domeney, Robert McNamara era where like singular figures could make decisions about

entirely on their own and without consideration of the effects on individual communities.

Like that was bad news bears, right?

Fair enough.

We've now gone, I think, to the other extreme where we've created all sorts of

mechanisms for those communities that would otherwise have been bulldozed by the Robert Moses or Dominies or whomever to speak up.

We've created environmental laws and historic preservation statutes and requirements for communities to have voices.

And we've created rights of action in court.

We've created all sorts of mechanisms.

And now, like, we know that people are using bullshit excuses.

Like, they don't want the housing to be put up near them.