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Assistant Professor of Political Science -- My work is on democratization, autocracies, the military, and political parties. Unsure of what to post on BlueSky when its cloudy outside.
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sending in Marines to back ICE on "papers please" raids while holding a campaign rally at Fort Bragg was inevitable once it became clear he would not face consequences for J6
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Nor do I which is why I fear that this results in enormous social unrest.
I don't know how we get 19 GOP Senators to flip.
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This is correct. Autocrats trying to overthrow democracy are far more likely to do so when they're popular.
Also, I've interviewed elites who helped overthrow a dictator specifically because he was becoming so unpopular
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Only smash the "try to be tough" button
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I like this conceptual differentiation between performance and production.