I'm not well informed about Noah Smith - I know a lot of people hate him, I just don't really have an opinion - but at least I don't think so little of him as that WaPo editor did.

Would you say you have noahpinion?

He was a decent Keynesian economist who saw China as a serious threat in that it's an amoral regime focused on supplanting the US as the global hegemon, but was pretty clear eyed about their structural problems. Then, he got Xitter famous.