dannyblinderman.bsky.social
Political Science PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan, studying APD, constitutional change & democratization. Proud member of GEO-3550. Semi-retired Jewish organizer. Thaddeus Stevens was right.
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Arguably the US constitutional order survived largely in spite of the defects of presidentialism *because* of the localism/regionalism of the US.
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What do you think happens to the FTC? That lawsuit is separate from this one, Humphries was (I think?) built on the fact that the FTC was a pre-New Deal agency.
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What Democratic donors would need to do is broadly subsidize media institutions, then sit back and see what emerges organically as people create content + appeal to different audiences. They wouldn't be able to control it (which donors don't like!) but that's the way it is.
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I saw someone say that Rogan's trajectory is actually a lot like Trump in one specific way: a product of B-culture (fear factor etc.) that made him liked + known to non-political normies and helped him build a brand he's carried over into politics.
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Yep. Someone who can do a show on the knicks, followed by a show on universal healthcare, followed by show segment where he and a guest "just ask questions" about whether the CIA killed Kennedy and invented addictive drugs as a false flag for mass incarceration.
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Three house Democrats have now died of natural causes since January. This is the real cost of gerontocracy: the selfishness of people who don't want to make way for younger leaders depriving their constituents of the energetic representation that they deserve.
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Where is this data from?
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Vader is less an idiosyncratic ruling elite with mystical powers than just the most flagrant and lawless aspect of an imperial system that systematically eats itself by punishing failure so harshly and lawlessly.
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UK Labor makes the Democrats look like political masterminds.
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Hot take but the same dynamics that caused AOC to lose to Connolly for ranking member on Oversight also caused Biden to want to run for reelection and for the party to close ranks behind him until it became completely untenable!
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It isn't that hard to come up with a good 30 second answer on Biden (he wasn't honest, he shouldn't have run, we deserved a primary, etc.) what's harder is fixing the problem that caused Biden, and the party, to be in that situation in the first place.
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And the gerontocracy stuff is a product of broader problems: conformity, group think, deference to seniority and hierarchy; all of which have ossified the party.
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RBG died and handed Republicans a super majority on SCOTUS. We all watched Diana Feinstein decline in office, including while she was still chair of the senate judiciary committee. Multiple house democrats have run in the face of age and health challenges only to die in office.
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Maarva adopted Casian. Luthen adopted Kleya. And, odd as it is to say, the empire adopted Deedra. All of them much more shaped by their adoptive parents then by their origins or "true" parentage.
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I think it reinforces the read that emerged this season--that they are *partners* in their operation, with Luthen basically assuming more risk by being the "face" of the thing because she's the one person he works with that he won't sacrifice or burn.