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Trump began his campaign in 2015 as an ideologically mixed populist who looked like he was having fun stirring things up. He has governed as an angry, incompetent right wing
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Selzer poll is out: Biden leads by 8, 49-41. This is an A+ pollster. It had Biden up only 4 in March. https://www.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/docs/2020-09/Selzer%20Co%20GCNP%202219%20Methodology.pdf This means it is almost impossible f
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One reason the Belarus protests resonate with me so much is that my ancestors lived in a shtetl called Haradzisischa for hundreds of years. It was a mostly Jewish village
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The 1850s were fascinating because there were three different political fears - often expressed as conspiracies - that animated North and South. Southern fear of abolitionists, Northern fear of the
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I consider this the surrender position. We just give up on distancing, accept the fact that the virus is going to spread much faster, overload a hospital system that we've
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The "models were wrong!" complaint is silly. Without widespread testing early on, we had no choice but to do a national shutdown just to get down to 60k deaths. That
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Can somebody please explain where the weird obsession with hydroxychloroquine came from? I'm not talking about overseas trials of the drug but the quasi-religious obsession with it, when the evidence
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THREAD: Let's talk about federalism. Yes, federalism, the system of government where powers are divided between national and local governments. In America we typically discuss federalism in the context of
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