"For parties are indeed universal—they rule a modern state whether it is a democracy or not. Indeed, given the inherent ambiguity around whether a country is a democracy or simply play-acting one, Adam Przeworski has suggested that democracies are systems in which 'parties lose'"
Yes, but I took a screenshot, and that lasts forever. :-)
hey @unlawfulentries.bsky.social , I think @polphilpod.bsky.social thinks you're Irish
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The galaxy will survive, but Zapp might not.
Southern whites switched parties.
That is not at all the explanation.
Turnout bottomed out in 1996 (Clinton’s reelection) and has very strongly rebounded since then, including the W and Trump years.
The explanation is: southern whites switched parties.
everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
It would be nice if, at a moment when academia is under brutal assault from outside forces that are opposed to the very core of its mission, academics weren't so obsessed with self-flagellation.
The wild thing in retrospect is how long the old coalition that included the southern racists lasted— it carried on for another 30 years after the Civil Rights Act. The GOP's fabled "Southern Strategy" won them a few presidencies, but not Congress (or state legislatures) during that time.
And Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and GHWB Bush *never* had Republican majorities in the House.
Since 1992, the norm has been that newly elected presidents have trifectas for their first two years.
ok, it’s definitely a bubble
As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
When I was growing up, the Democratic lock on the House was so strong that after the 1978 Carter presidency midterms, they still had a 120-seat majority.
The previous midterm under a Democratic president, in 1966, was a Republican wave, a 47-seat swing... leaving Democrats just a 60-seat majority.
Three days? Sure. A week? Yes.
At a month, my wife will still do it, but I start to get twitchy about cutting books. At six weeks, the books make it impossible.
But at five months, you're looking at changes in season in most places. Are winter coats "specialized equipment"?
Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...
Sex and the City meme, "And I couldn't help but wonder who assigned so many things to grade?"
Dictator Perpetuo That understanding did not originate in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. It goes all the way back to Rome. Like America, Rome was a people consciously rooted in having overthrown a monarchy. In 44 BC, Julius Caesar had his portrait placed on the coinage of the Republic. It was a shocking statement. Roman coins had never before carried a living man’s portrait at the Rome mint. Much less one bearing his newly claimed, unprecedented title: dictator perpetuo, the dictator for life. To put your face on the money was to claim a status above that of a citizen, to assert that you were not first among equals but something closer to a sovereign. It was emblematic of his concentration of power, consolidating his rule into an open autocracy. Within weeks of issuing the “CAESAR DICT PERPETVO” coin, he was assassinated. Though the Roman Republic fell, the ideal survived. Public institutions exist apart from the men who lead them, and conflating the two is the hallmark of tyranny. That ideal profoundly shaped the generation that designed the American constitutional order. The Founders created a Senate, placed it on a “Capitol Hill,” and embraced neoclassical architecture. They modeled their concept of civic virtue on Cincinnatus, the farmer-general who, having defeated a foreign invader, relinquished his dictatorial powers after just 15 days and went home. The Federalist Papers were published under the pseudonym “Publius,” while others posed as “Cato” or “Brutus.” Washington’s voluntary departure from the presidency after two terms, and his earlier resignation of his military commission, were modeled on that Roman example.
When Congress debated the Coinage Act of 1792, an initial version of the bill called for the president’s portrait to appear on U.S. coins. Washington rejected the idea, and James Madison successfully had it removed, arguing that stamping the president’s head on the money was un-republican.
A deep dive on the history of our Roman-inspired republican symbolism and why Trump's desecrations of it are worse than merely being cringe-inducing.
It is not the camera angle!
A doggo in winter
Problem: White House is concerned by reports that several men in the cabinet are drinking on the job.
Solution:
two things can be true and I'm tired of having to remind y'all of that
She is awful and should be fired but man that is three women out of the Cabinet and not a single guy
yep.
But Daredevil!
"Because they're the one party dedicated to fighting cancel culture, which stops me from getting invited to Martha's Vineyard parties, and to protecting the privacy of people in certain files, which stops you from knowing I went to other parties on another island."
It kinda seems like the logical conclusion at this point: “you keep telling us you hate all the stuff since Endgame. Ok, we’ll throw out those characters! We’ll bring back Downey and Evans! We’ll do another big crossover and call it “Avengers” for no particular reason!
We’ll just rerelease Endgame!
Happy SPAM conference to all those who celebrate.
SPAM. SPAM. No, autocorrect, I'm trying to type SPAM. Stop rearranging the letters.
Anyway, the one with the Palmer House Hilton and the extended deadlines. You know. The one that sends way too many e-mails.
