ruggles.bsky.social
PhD at Brandeis. I study how right-wing student groups built the New Right and took over the GOP. APD, SMOs, and parties.
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Would be interesting to see how many of those freq attends report carrying in-church too. Concealed carry was a big part of male Christian ID for many in my suburban CA church. Can only imagine it went up in the past 5 yrs.
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Congrats!
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I think Mettler argues this well in Submerged State. Cons have succeeded in disconnecting the state from American voters (among other things) through neoliberalism for the past few decades. Even the tools at Biden's disposal (child tax credits) hid the state's role and didn't seem to shape cons' pov
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I think this is the way to go. I like the variety of an algorithm and the discovery aspect, but this is the challenge inherent in trusting any tech to sort through "preferences."
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I’m so sorry. Ken gave me such generous and thoughtful feedback on dissertation chapters and was such a kind and brilliant person. He will be missed.
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TL;DR is that Democrats act like they have time they don't have. GOP is doing better on delivering on a new iteration of ID politics than the left, largely by ignoring institutional responses.
Handwringing over electoral margins is what it is, but this kind of L-wing dissonance can be reordering.
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Trump is promising that he can deliver better than institutions, and it will be easy for him to show that when Biden was stemming losses from COVID and Dems invested in opaque ways. "Are you better off?" should have been clearer with trillions in investments.
This isn't just "grievance politics."
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2.) Cons won COVID. Set institutional mistrust on fire across the board. Dem responses like Build Back Better and Infl. Red. Act are confined to institutions w/high mistrust. Institutions have longer time horizons than movements. Programatic aid failed to win constituents.
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Preliminary thoughts/hypotheses.
1.) Since J6, the GOP has been the "movement party" while Dems have been the "institutions party". Dems have been focused on rebuilding institutions after Trump 45-led attitudinal and actual backsliding while Cons build up movement (extra-party) infrastructure.