“Trumpism will not deliver broad prosperity any more than Orbánism did,” Adam Serwer argues. “It took Hungarians the better part of 20 years to reclaim their freedom. How long will it take Americans?”
When the next measles outbreak makes it to your hometown, call it “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
(new @ms.now column)
We went from 24 yesterday to expecting -5 tonight April you are drunk go home and sleep it off.
Want to feel old? Trump’s Jesus-is-me tweet is now closer in time to his end-a-civilization tweet than his end-a-civilization tweet is to Pete Hegseth’s Bonnie-Situation homily.
Three things were always completely obvious in 2024: More tariffs, mass deportation, and taking revenge against political enemies.
Everyone who was paying attention and speaking in good faith said it at the time. So did Trump. If anyone is surprised, they weren’t paying attention.
💯
I'd say CLs need to be asking themselves the same questions about Trump, but they're reluctant to because of esteem for the US founding docs.
Where things haven't gone over the edge yet (🇨🇦 for eg), will we make the case for new guardrails or just 🤞?
Lots more CLs need to read Applebaum.
There are liberal projects for structural changes to gird liberalism—eg @theunpopulist.net and @liberalcurrents.com Reconstruction projects. Also a common subject in e.g. The New Republic. Less so in traditionally classical liberal spaces. So I wondered if you think CLs especially need to hear you.
iirc I said: Is there a better political order for avoiding distributed complacency?
And: I was more interested in your focus on what autocrats learned from what happened in Hungary, with less emphasis on if/how liberals are learning from Orban's competitive authoritarianism.
Bluesky troubles ate my responses to this, apparently.
I realize you're saying most of the profs weren't making that—I think the popular impression is they're all making six figures.
The fact that the number of sunshine list employees keeps going up really upsets people.
They are upset about high teacher salaries during a teacher shortage.
This page does not help.
There is still something about making it to six figures that sparks resentment. Ontario has a "sunshine list" since 1996 that reports public employees making $100K+ and people react to it the same now even though median individual income has about doubled (~$20K–~$40K) since it was introduced.
Oh Thing 1 will probably eat this.
(I will definitely eat this.)
Thing 2 will eat the pita. Probably.
cannot wait for the trend of the race-science curious pundit to end
faux liberalism (ezra klein) vs actual liberalism (mill)
Of that group, a bunch are now squeamishly ending up centre-left, fretting that progressivism and socialism might still mean what they fear it does but dealing with it.
The ones who are still on the right have added insistence that conservatism also not be judged by what it cheers for right now.
Running up to and in the Obama era there was a political contingent for whom it was very important that progressivism and socialism be represented by what they meant in the 1920–30s and that conservativism absolutely not be judged by what it cheered for back then.
I wouldn't even consider myself a progressive necessarily, but the idea American left-liberal progressivism is outside the lineage of the Declaration's Enlightenment liberalism civic creed tradition is just... total bullshit. The enemies of that today are post-liberal far-right, they proudly say so!
There are abstract philosophy points buried in there about the nature of rights, but the idea progressives think rights don't matter at all b/c they "come from the government" and aren't limits on government isn't a real thing and is if anything closer to his own social conservative positions.
I know there's a lot going on but I am also upset about the disappearing Minute Maid frozen juice pucks.
They're down to a quarter of the freezer space they once commanded. I got the last Five Alive puck.
From last week: part of my ongoing efforts to have The Wealth of Nations, and particularly Book V, recognized as a great, founding text of political science.
www.econlib.org/library/colu...
In France, if you want to build a home above a certain size, you’re legally required to use a licensed architect.
Can you guess what that size is
Just point out to everyone that Canada has a Trump negotiated trade deal.
I think those same people also used to point to Hong Kong.
The price will continue to rise until demand matches supply. The only thing eliminating the gas tax does is make sure none of that final price goes to the government
Have there ever been stable liberal private property regimes without liberal democracy?
If we decide to put up obstacles against floor crossing, should we also put up rules that require MPs to vote with their parties?
My first guess is that the Conservative caucus would have voted to eject them.
But if they then chose to join the Liberal caucus would that be bad?
If the Conservative proposal was in place, would they still be required to run in a by-election?
