I will pay out 500-1k per recommendation depending on how much i like it, until the bounty runs out. It's highly unlikely I will like more than 5 recommendations anyway, given my somewhat niche preferences

Some context:

• I tuned out all my political consumption after the election because of crankiness and burnout, and to avoid the predictable deluge of bad takes. So now that I'm ready to dip my toes back in, I don't know who's doing the good stuff.

• I think inflation mostly caused Harris' loss but there may be some other angle I'm missing

• I'm mostly interested in Democratic retrospectives and analysis/recrimination style content but any generally cool/insightful content would be welcome too

• I am more likely to dismiss most confident proclamations and 'what Dems must do' style content especially if it's non-empirical

• I am disillusioned by almost all my previous political consumption, and find them predictable and annoying now e.g I could not bring myself to watch any of Fareed Zakaria's pretentious waffling and repetitive slate of guests, I'm dismissing Ezra Klein's spree of supposedly sophisticated takes out of hand, have only listened to a couple election-related podcasts etc Typical liberal media punditry e.g Yglesias, Josh Barro, Noah Smith that I would broadly categorize as pseudo-insightful might annoy more than inform me (but there may be exceptions?)

• The two pieces of content I've enjoyed unequivocally so far are:

  • https://www.natesilver.net/p/kamala-harris-was-a-replacement-level - by Nate Silver cause it convinced me Democrats weren't doomed from the start like I believed (and cause it is sympathetic to Kamala, which I am)

• https://mattglassman.substack.com/p/provisional-initial-election-thoughts- cause it seemed on the mark while being unpretentious

Thanks!