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There's no identity politics as dangerous as the identity politics of dominant groups who feel their power and status is being threatened. vox.com/policy-and-pol…
The hard question for politics in our age is how to calm the reaction rather than appeasing it by demanding the concessions be made by people who've already made so many.
I think there are more examples of this being done successfully than people tend to admit. California, for instance, is imperfect, but it's a functioning, proud, multiethnic liberal democracy.
Anyway, I really recommend this @zackbeauchamp piece. It's one of the clearest analyses of where Western politics is, and where it's going, that I've read. vox.com/policy-and-pol…
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Howard Schultz's presidential campaign is based on three ideas, and they're all wrong. vox.com/policy-and-pol…
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Governing as a “centrist independent” free of party would generate gridlock and conflict in a system that is organized around political parties. Schultz has no theory of Congress or legislating that makes sense. He just has a theory of himself.
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“I would vote for Trump and hold my nose, and he’s worse than anything I feared."

Wall Street really, really hates Elizabeth Warren. vox.com/policy-and-pol…
And you know what? They may be right to. A lot of Democrats are critical of Wall Street, but they don't really care about it.

Warren does. Her politics are built atop a critique of Wall Street, and the over-financialization of the economy.
It's easy to imagine lots of Democrats saying mean things about Wall Street on the campaign trail then getting into office and mostly ignoring them to focus on health care and pre-k.

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.@JohnkDelaney's health plan, summarized. There's a lot of interesting stuff in @dylanlscott's interview with him, which you should read in full, but a few quick notes. vox.com/2019/2/11/1822…
Delaney says: "If you have the government as the only payer in health care, all the evidence suggests the government will not pay cost. Therefore, no one will invest in health care anymore."

There's no evidence for this — consider the defense industry as a counterexample.
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