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10 Mar, 6 tweets, 4 min read
It is worth celebrating every Biden roll-back of Trump-era administrative burdens.

The Trump administration public charge rule is dead, which would have disproportionately targeted immigrants of color, is dead. 1/
Back in 2019, I wrote about the public charge rule. It's current incarnation was the brainchild of white nationalist Stephen Miller, who wanted to expand it as a de facto wealth tax on immigrants. (Via @ArcDigi) arcdigital.media/trump-is-remak…
The public charge arose and has always been motivated by bias towards ethnic groups, such as the Irish and Chinese in the 1880s.
arcdigital.media/trump-is-remak…
motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
The Trump public charge rule was blocked before it ever took effect. But by sowing confusion and fear, and increasing learning costs, it still had a negative effect. Immigrant families became less likely to use Medicaid even as the pandemic started
ideas42.org/wp-content/upl…
"The public charge rule never generated anywhere near as much outrage as the Muslim ban or family separation...By some estimates, the rule would have blocked hundreds of thousands of people from getting green cards each year."
Opaque burdens matter a lot! motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
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Biden, who has a history of making gaffes, spent the last year winning in a crowded Dem field, handling Trump in two debates, running a gaffe-free campaign and transition, passing a massive anti-poverty legislation and ramping up COVID response.
But they are still pushing this.
Trump regularly misspoke, stumbled over words, made massive misstatements and misjudgments, and all of the "Biden has cognitive decline" guys treated him like he was playing 12 dimensional chess while wrestling a bear. Come on!
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So while DC policy wonks have been arguing about the children allowance, the public seems largely unaware of it. If it is going to survive beyond the COVID bill funding, that requires a massive public awareness and branding campaign.
The popularity of the children allowance also depends on *actually getting it to people in need.* Relying on IRS to distribute the aid is not of much help when the most in need don't file taxes.
Social Security was controversial when it was created but succeeded by relentless branding and making access to benefits easy (they used the post office before social security offices existed). That is why SSA would be a better agency than IRS to distribute the child benefit IMO Image
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11 Mar
What did Trumpism as an administrative doctrine mean for the management of public services? In this short piece in @PAReview, @AlasdairRoberts and I try to make sense of it all. Some big takeaways. 1/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pu… Image
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We wrote this piece just after the election, and what we thought was a bold prediction then feels like a conventional wisdom now. Some version of Trumpism will remain a potent force that shapes how we govern in America. 3/ Image
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9 Mar
Sometimes the best way to understand a system is through someone's personal account of how it worked for them. This from @realLandsEnd is going to help you understand administrative burdens in SSDI better than any aggregate statistics.
One incredibly thoughtful part of this piece is the degree to which the construction of the individual in the eyes of the US state - and the burdens imposed upon them - are based on connections to work (we are seeing this play out now with the debate over a children's allowance).
The state imposes the greatest burdens upon those who are experiencing conditions - such as scarcity or ill health - that makes it harder for them to deal with such burdens at a time when they most need help: a human capital Catch 22. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
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I remember as a kid being shocked looking at depictions of the Irish as ape-like in 19th century British political cartoons. Presumably people would not tolerate this today. Which makes me puzzled about why so many are unwilling to allow some forms of representation to disappear.
The simian-like portrayal of the Irish followed them across the Atlantic as they fled a famine, used by a nativist press to portray them as sub-human, untrustworthy, and a threat to the political order.
In some cases, it was hard to distinguish between portrayals of the Irish and Blacks. And in some cases the connection between the two was made explicit (see the cover from Harpers Weekly on the left)
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Objectively hilarious that the people who normally tell us about the genius of the founders are now jumping in to protect the UK Royal family
Hot take: to keep this Republic, America needs more immigrants from former colonies to push back against the growing monarchist sympathies among native borns.
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