Democratic Primaries

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Chait was an initial supporter of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.[11]

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On September 26, 2011, Chait, while admitting he hadn't read Gilad Atzmon's book The Wandering Who, in order to assess the context of a number of quotes, responded to John Mearsheimer's comment about Atzmon's book by citing passages which he regarded as characteristically antisemitic.[17]

On January 27, 2015, Chait wrote an article for New York Magazine on political correctness, which he labeled "a system of left-wing ideological repression" and cited examples from academia and social media.[18] His article was met with criticism, largely, although not entirely, negative.[19][20][21][22] Chait later responded to the criticisms in a second article for New York Magazine.[23]

In February 2016, Chait argued in New York Magazine that "Liberals Should Support a Trump Republican Nomination", predicting among other things that a Trump presidency would develop similar to the governorship of Arnold Schwarzenegger in California (who like Trump was a celebrity who became a Republican politician without prior public service experience).[24] In 2019, The Outline selected this piece as one of the "worst takes of the 2010s", opining that "Chait’s immensely confident take [...] is a humiliating crystallization of the wrongheaded thinking that propelled [Trump] to the White House."[25]

Jonathan Chait has written extensively in support of charter schools.[26][27] On January 14, 2019, he accused Senator Elizabeth Warren of selling out to "powerful interests" for her opposition to an initiative which would have expanded the number of charter schools in Massachusetts.[28]

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