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Factors in recent liberal movement successes:
- Criminal justice: behind-the-scenes bipartisan deal, liberal foundations & conservative activists, governors, prosecutor elections
- Gay rights: courts, public opinion, pop culture
- Pre-K: research, governors, slow expansion
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- Criminal justice: behind-the-scenes bipartisan deal, liberal foundations & conservative activists, governors, prosecutor elections
- Gay rights: courts, public opinion, pop culture
- Pre-K: research, governors, slow expansion
1/n
Teacher pay: walkouts, response to worst cases, moderate Reps, Red states & Blue cities
Marijuana: public opinion, start with medical compromise
Health: big partisan law built on prior system, bargained down with interest groups & moderates, group & public support in states
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Marijuana: public opinion, start with medical compromise
Health: big partisan law built on prior system, bargained down with interest groups & moderates, group & public support in states
2/n
& some liberal movement failures
- Gun control: polarizing, social/mass media based, protest, 1 Red ~win in FL
- Immigrant rights: big bipartisan deal focus, then polarized debate
- Climate: big national deal focus, proliferating policy
- Labor: defensive, public sector focus
3/3
- Gun control: polarizing, social/mass media based, protest, 1 Red ~win in FL
- Immigrant rights: big bipartisan deal focus, then polarized debate
- Climate: big national deal focus, proliferating policy
- Labor: defensive, public sector focus
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