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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Second, one of the goals of these tariffs was to raise revenue. Without them, the fiscal insanity of his tax cuts for rich people looms even larger, which could push up interest rates. I think higher interest rates probably bite more politically than invisible costs on everyday items.
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One is that the ability to arbitrarily raise and lower tariffs is one way Trump can solicit bribes and blackmail companies into supporting him. Without that, it is harder to lock businesses into an authoritarian corporatism.
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Though it is shameful and a mark of deep constitutional rot that congress has refused to stand up for its own institutional power. There are many things wrong with the US democracy. One of them is a congress that has stopped functioning as an independant branch.
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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.