Matt Yglesias

Matt exhibits the standard leftist hatred of actions that he considered heroic when his own side was doing them a few years ago. Intellectual integration does not seem to be a leftist strong suit. Interesting question: is it hypocrisy if the person honestly can't make the connections?

Ed Morrisey dismantles him here.

Totalitarian states are very, very "governable." A free society is not easily ruled. Sorry Matt finds this annoying.

So did Tom Friedman.

One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century. It is not an accident that China is committed to overtaking us in electric cars, solar power, energy efficiency, batteries, nuclear power and wind power. China’s leaders understand that in a world of exploding populations and rising emerging-market middle classes, demand for clean power and energy efficiency is going to soar. Beijing wants to make sure that it owns that industry and is ordering the policies to do that, including boosting gasoline prices, from the top down.