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"Econ 102" with Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg cover image

California Land Use, The Best American City, San Francisco Politics, and more with Dan Romero

"Econ 102" with Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg

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The Dean Preston's of the World

The Dean Preston's of the world, like kind of use the labels of progressive socialism as a way to kind of distract from very Republican land sort of orientation or policies. The Dean Preston's core constituency lives in, you know, hate. And those people were all hippies who moved to the hate who moved there because that was the center of hippie-dom and then they bought houses there. If those people ever sell, they'll have millions of dollars. Do those people want apartment buildings near their houses that are their entire nest egg? No, they do not. But they will come up with some progressive reason because there are a bunch of old white hippies in San Francisco.

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