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7 Feb, 8 tweets, 2 min read
Two observations:

1. This shows the superiority of BBB's company specific strategy over Trump's, as captured by his Carrier gambit.

2. Why are there not 50 senators on this letter?
Specifically on #1:

- Articulate on the campaign a generally applicable principle (government should support unionization)
- Articulate why the principle is valuable (unions help reduce inequality, which in turn makes politics hellish)
- Once you're in office, the principle is an umbrella that empowers third parties to apply the principle to specific instances/ companies
- Follow up and verify. Allow others to do the same.c
Contrast with Carrier: leading with a specific instance. Make fuzzy what the underlying principle is. Leave unarticulated what victory looks like. No third party empowered to do anything. Unaccountability and cynicism the result.
That said, using the bully pulpit to challenge corporate malfeasance is popular...
politico.com/story/2016/12/…
And there are structural reasons why this tactic is easier to pull off than systemic change.
toddntucker.medium.com/why-carrier-jo…
Here's an oldie but goodie from @SenSanders about how the company-by-company approach to combatting corporate malfeasance invites hostage-taking.
washingtonpost.com/posteverything…
This piece, OTOH, did not age as well.
washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…

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Great point from @michaelpollan.

Norm entrepreneurs had their ideological reasons to center efficiency, but a reason their project scaled was because it can be easily measured.

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BBB will have made a huge contribution if it develops data, tools, and jobs for people to collect and deploy both on the resilience agenda. Give the next generation of social science PhDs something to write about!

Here's a start, with @rdnayak: prospect.org/day-one-agenda…
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Also appreciated the focus on the human dimension of doing politics in an era with all the promise and perils of network platforms.
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