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Fine, here’s what I think is going on:White men have long been a minority in US society (currently 29%), but until very recently, they controlled all the ladders of ascent

As I have suggested many times, the core belief motivating a lot of white peoples’ exhaustion with “race issues” is the idea that race is a parochial topic that affects

the thing about this thread is, you can’t always tell what these dudes are up to by engaging with their arguments. clever writers are very good at picking narrow, defensible

basically what's happening is that you have a bunch of ideas that have always appealed to comfortable people at the top of society - mostly white dudes - about how

Suburbs get a tiny fraction of the attention that major cities do, but they're really becoming the hub of civil rights conflict in Americahttps://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1381482394700574720 The primary reason is the process

The GOP has trained everyone else to frame politics as “How can we change Republican minds?”It’s a bit like deciding the only way to beat an invading army is persuade

No one is opposed to school reopenings. Teachers hate remote teaching as much (or more) than families and children. Everyone wants to find a way to make schools work.What people

Absurdly, the latest NYT poll shows that only 2/3s of DEMOCRATS want to hold Barrett’s vote until after the election. It’s truly hard to imagine how the Dem Senate caucus

The whole point of the courts - of lifetime appointments - is that they are insulated from politics. The GOP, however, realized lifetime appointments could be a loophole in democracy,

Okay, Yglesias, Chait, Barro and other pundits of that type have a new gimmick: they say that Democrats should prioritize "popular things" and avoid "unpopular things." It sounds eminently reasonable!

"We should reopen the schools, it's safe," is a right-wing view, heavily motivated by right-wing anti-union politics, that has disguised itself as a left-wing argument in favor of racial equity.Need

This is not really responsive to any specific event, but living through the Trump era has really clarified something for me, and that’s how much fascism is a disease rooted