As an example, in my mind I confidently-but-vaguely recall some Matt Yglesias tweets where he endorsed dishonesty for his side of the political on some meta-level, in order to win political conflicts; interested if anyone else recalls this / has a link
I won’t say I would necessarily be surprised, per se, if he had written something along these lines, at least on Twitter, but as as general matter Matt believes Misinformation mostly confuses your own side, where he wrote:
My bottom line on this is that saying things that are true is underrated and saying things that are false is overrated.
We’re all acutely aware of the false or misleading things our political opponents say, and it’s easy to convince yourself in the spirit of “turnabout is fair play” that the key to victory is to play dirty, too. The real problem, though, is that not only does your side already say more false and misleading things than you’d like to admit, but they are almost certainly saying more false and misleading things than you realize. That’s because your side is much better at misleading you than they are at misleading people outside of your ideological camp, and this kind of own-team deception creates huge tactical and strategic problems.
I do believe Matt’s support of truth-telling in political fights is instrumental rather than a terminal value for him, so perhaps him articulating this is what you were thinking of?
I won’t say I would necessarily be surprised, per se, if he had written something along these lines, at least on Twitter, but as as general matter Matt believes Misinformation mostly confuses your own side, where he wrote:
I do believe Matt’s support of truth-telling in political fights is instrumental rather than a terminal value for him, so perhaps him articulating this is what you were thinking of?