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Republicans are not cowards, but true believers - and pretending otherwise “risks misleading the country about the true depths of GOP radicalization.”@ThePlumLineGS is making a crucial point - and addresses

Such an important point: From the perspective of what @ThePlumLineGS calls egalitarian, cosmopolitan liberalism, the current situation is utterly unsatisfactory because too many people have never been enabled - politically,

The Republican Party’s ongoing radicalization on the state and local levels is a severely undercovered story: It is one of the main threats to American democracy going forward, and the

I reviewed @ezraklein‘s “Why We’re Polarized” for @hsozkult. A few thoughts, from a historical perspective, on an important book that still left me unconvinced that "polarization" is the right lens

This is also where much of the attractiveness of the “Trump the political genius” narrative stems from. Empirically, the idea that millions of people have simply been overwhelmed by the

I RTed this thread by @mattsheffield yesterday because it contains crucial observations on conservative media. However, I strongly disagree with the idea that Trump’s supporters are being "misled" and I

I find this question, prompted by @SethCotlar’s criticism of what he rightfully calls the "naïve, American Exceptionalist idea that 'it can’t happen here'," really interesting. A few thoughts from a

I want to share my personal Covid-19 story, from my infection in March to the ongoing struggle with long-term effects, even four months later. Too many people are still unconcerned