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How should we understand the relationship between Trump and the evolution of the GOP? Is it a rupture, intensification, more of the same? In response to #LetThemEatTweets, the ever-thoughtful @JohnQuiggin offers a helpful metaphor: phase transition. 1/

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The GOP's gone from a "mixture of many dissolved ingredients, in which the dominant element was the business establishment, and the Trump era party...as a crystallised mass of plutocratic economics, racism and all-round craziness" (@JohnQuiggin). 2/
In the process, "various groups (Blacks and Northeastern liberal Republicans in C20, liberaltarians more recently) have left the Republican coalition in response to its racism and know-nothingism" (@JohnQuiggin). 3/
And "[t]he dregs that have precipitated out are ideas that were supposed to be important to Republicans (free trade, scientific truth, classical liberalism, moral character and so on) that turned out not to matter at all" (@JohnQuiggin). 4/
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The Public Option is back in the news, along with Medicare for All. But how are they different? And which is better? Here’s my take. 1/
The Public Option, which I first advocated in 2001 (though I didn't use the term), is a Medicare-like public insurance plan that would be open to everyone -- and could evolve into Medicare for All. Here’s a piece that explains it: 2/

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Then there's Medicare for All -- which (notwithstanding the misleading headline of the last piece) is pretty different from the Public Option because it would immediately universalize Medicare. Medicare is popular and successful, so why isn’t everyone behind Medicare for All? 3/
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Coronavirus reminds us that anti-government science denialism kills. We made big gains in life expectancy in 20th c. due to public health regulation and investment: purifying water, vaccines, antibiotics, health and education, auto/road safety, tobacco control, clean air. 1/
The U.S. hasn’t been adequately investing or regulating in the 21st century. Paul Pierson and I explain what went wrong in chapter 1 of our book, American Amnesia. 2/ amazon.com/American-Amnes…
A recent study found that that "every $1 invested in public health departments resulted in a remarkable $67 to $88 of benefits to society." And yet public health spending in the U.S. has fallen as proportion of total health since the Great Recession. 3/ ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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