Nice. Matt Yglesias is allegedly a journalist who has had many left-wing publications give him a platform. He also co-founded the relentlessly left-biased propaganda site Vox. Here’s a signature significance moment from Yglesias that I flagged in 2016, in which he said that lying to advance a policy or position is “the right thing to do.” Yes, he really did. Yglesias has had periodic attacks of integrity since, however. Occasionally.
In that tweet above, he asserts, from the position as a prominent journalist, a pure opinion as fact. Many readers inclined to be gulled by their own confirmation bias will immediately take it as fact. It is not fact.
To Matt’s credit, and I mean this, at least Yglesias had the integrity and honesty to admit he was making this up once he was challenged. That places him well above most pundits and “journalists” [I’ve decided that henceforth I am always going to put “journalist” in quotes unless one of them has proven that he or she really is one] on my contempt list, but still well below my respect minimums.
His tweet and its response are noteworthy for a couple of other reasons besides the obvious one, that a “journalist” made up a fact and stated it as such because it seemed reasonable to him (and besides, lying to advance a policy or position is “the right thing to do.”) Amusingly, he equates low-information Americans with being “low trust” Americans. That’s exactly backwards. The better informed American are, the less they trust, for example, people like Matt Yglesias.
Matt also shows his essential dishonesty by using the misleading and equivocal “I do not have anything I can share” as a palliative euphemism for “Yup, I made this up. I’ve got nothing.”
Focus. These are the people trying to get Kamala Harris elected President.
Ethics Alarms 
A propos of nothing, but John Kerry is a terrible human being. What a tool:
https://x.com/SwipeWright/status/1840231811554664541
”low-engagement” from the side of the political spectrum that touts Taylor Swift for her ability to influence voter enrollment.
-Jut
I haven’t followed the numbers since I retired from working in Corrections, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Yglesias was right. Historically, between 80% and 90% of US prison inmates have supported Democrats and similarly progressive parties. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if that number had dropped several percent. One factor influencing convicted criminals’ support for Trump would be the inmates’ hostility to unchecked immigration (The over 435,000 foreign nationals Biden’s regime let in despite their having previous criminal convictions are competition for our domestic criminal population…). Another factor would be the prisoners’ resentment of how Biden gets away with blatant criminal activity with the prosecutors actively helping sweep it under the rug. Some inmates also probably identify with Trump, who is seen as facing unfair prosecution just because of who he is. While the prosecutions that brought those inmates to prison may have been completely justified, many do feel like they were only prosecuted because of their history or reputation, rather than because of their most recent actions. They identify with Donald Trump as suffering in the same situation.
Oh, he may well be right, though not for the reasons he cited. The point is that he’s stating an opinion as a fact without having any evidence that it is a fact.