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PhD at Brandeis. I study how right-wing student groups built the New Right and took over the GOP. APD, SMOs, and parties. Fīat iūstitia ruat cælum
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"better-than-expected" does not signal good news.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Friendly reminder that 47 is an even clearer commitment to the logics of Anton's framework than 45. Flight 93 is worth the re-read for anyone trying to explain the logics of the WH today. claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/the-...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The sense of inevitability is a powerful tool.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Regardless of one's views of 47's foreign policy moves, it's a remarkable reversal for the party of Reagan. Absolute 180. Unclear if the neocon foreign policy community will fall in line or support a dramatic takedown of strategic defense capacity.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

No debt ceiling you say?

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Not sure if it’s the algorithm here, who else I follow, or just a glut of this kind of thing, but my feed is flooded with aggressively lefty memes. Downvote, but still – is there nowhere to be free from foreign propaganda bots?

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

Aggressive media bothsidesism in an increasingly amoral society justifies authoritarian leaders’ positioning as a salve to chaos. It’s self-defeating and lazy at best and complicit at worst.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Interested to see what comes of the "2020 Realignment" thesis in POLS. Seems like there's a COVID-led demise and/or BLM backlash arg. Compared to the 10s, antiracist social movements in the U.S. have cratered in the past 3 years. Cons are winning on "ID politics."

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment

Migrating over to this place because I needed a new echo chamber

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments