#Legitimacy

David Frum

davidfrum

a point about democratic legitimacy ...It's not inherently a problem in a democratic system to "win" by the rules despite losing the popular vote. 1/x In a multiparty list system

GarvSeSecular فخریہ سیکولر

GarvSeSecular

My periodic reminder. Right Wing is a legitimate political ideology. Supremacy of a religion or a race is not RW. Nobody called Nazis RW. Nobody called RSS RW before 2012-13.

CavsKermit

JbkJbk1234

If you're urging Senate Rs to fill RGB's seat before the election, if you want that one last bag of dough from the bank heist before moving on to discussing

Joshua A. Engel

joshuaadamengel

IMPOSSIBLE to understate the threat the extreme unrepresentative nature of Senate poses to the RepublicOur system is built on a Congress that is responsive to the will of the people,

Sidhant Wadhera

SidhantWadhera

The first article I've read in my endeavor is Beyond the 'failed state': Toward conceptual alternatives by @call4pax, published in 2011 by the European Journal of International Relations. https://doi-org.proxy.uchicago.edu/10.11

Adam Gurri

adamgurri

This appears to be argument by very specifically defined tautology. I'm not really sure what people hope to accomplish when they take this approach https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1306222678311919617 Some components of the EC

Han-earl Park 🎸

hanearlpark

In music and sound art, it’s the kind of inscrutable exoticism and exotic inscrutability that European Experimentalists can’t get enough of. #andlikethatalittleculturedies https://twitter.com/jfwong/status/1317660888166404096 It’s got

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

This is a useful thread from @Nate_Cohn and I would say that liberals need to conceptualize the problem as an interlocking set of failures of democratic legitimacy. Neither George W

Professor Simon Chadwick

Prof_Chadwick

1/11 Last week, I posted this...If lots of people are pointing, discussing or writing about the stains, how come many of us label it as sport washing? Lazy labelling more

Lindsay P Cohn

lindsaypcohn

I’ve argued that civ control is a crucial value. I agree that democratically elected ldrs have a right to be wrong.But I’ve also argued that, for the civil-mil relationship to

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

Purely as a practical matter, a police force without legitimacy can not enforce the law. Anyone who has taught high school (or saw a teacher lose control of a class

⚓️🚢Imani Gandy 🚢⚓️

AngryBlackLady

Project Lincoln has been awfully quiet about Amy Coney Barrett. The reason? They’re not your friends. They’re fine with her and everything she stands for. They just don’t like trump.

Mike

mmachado__

The public doesn’t know what the bar exam is. They accept that it proves competency, b/c the powers that be say so. But it’s a dereliction of our duty as

Rafael Khachaturian

rafkhach

These protests are organic uprisings against a capitalist state whose representative institutions are increasingly failing to provide it with democratic legitimacy, leaving it to maintain a semblance of order by

Jeet Heer

HeerJeet

1. I've been reading some Raymond Chandler lately & it clarified something that is maybe obvious to everyone else but had never occurred to me: that pervasive police corruption was

Leighton Akira Woodhouse

lwoodhouse

This is a little nerdy but I keep hearing the same fundamental mistake over and over again whenever someone talks about the state having a "monopoly on violence." It's usually