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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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The White House is demanding that ICE get deportations up, and ordering any career law enforcement who objects to get the hell out of the way. The head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal operations apparently resigned rather than obey an order to fire ICE officers who weren’t hitting arrest quotas!
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In 2020 there were a ton of REP postings -- even in deep red states.
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We have been facing a crisis of democracy since 2016 and departments around the country looked at my field and went...eh
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The Fed AND the Reserve??
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Doh
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Pulls up "I’m Not Okay (I Promise)" by MCR because...well yeah
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Lowering marginal tax rates was a bigger mistake imo.
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Every accusation...
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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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