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27 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The core problem with conservative media dominance in the GOP is not that it prevents the winning of elections—it doesn’t—but that it hampers the ability to govern in a serous way. Or, more precisely, it crowds out those serious about governance, and encourages those who won’t.
This week is like examples A through G of this problem.
And, no, this isn’t as big of a problem on the left. Yet. But I do worry that the media-primary-partisan spiral there is growing as well.
I do think the key link here is that the conservative media machine really doesn’t care about being in power to govern, because their incentives really prefer being out of power.

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I'm seriously mesmerized by this picture. So much weirdness. I can't stop studying it.
Lotta good photoshop opportunities for what's on that TV, too.
Someone photoshop this photo into the TV.
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Maybe it’s just Twitter, but I feel like a heck of a lot of people are doing really bad risk assessments, in both directions.
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Hear me out on this one: what if Congress—the “master”—decides it wants to provide for a city council, or, heck, make DC a sovereign entity.

If we are so sure the capital city should be ruled by Congress, why the beef when Congress decides how to administratively rule the city?
It’s should be the be most natural thing in the world for people who believe Congress has unilateral authority over DC to accept that Congress might want to shrink DC and spin-off a sovereign state, or provide for a less-than-sovereign measure of self-government.
It might be preferable to have Congress appoint a governor and city council, or for Congress to directly administer DC with Speaker as mayor. Or any number of other arrangements.

But that’s *not* what Congress chose. They chose democratic home rule. Now maybe statehood.
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23 Apr
I'm sympathetic to putting more constitutional structure into the statehood process. Two things I found research it: (a) the plan adopted in constitution was a radical outlier in both ease of admission and discretion for Congress; and (b) everyone in the 19th c. hated it. 1/
Here's the constitutional plan in comparison with the other major plans considered in the 1770s/1780s and potential reforms in the 1860s for national expansion.
And here's a long thread discussing why this became a problem:

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22 Apr
The one argument I hate is that DC will "bring balance" to the Senate. Maybe that's true in some narrow partisan or urban/rural sense, but DC will absolutely exacerbate general Senate malapportionment and further dilute the congressional power of residents of populous states.
This is not, IMO, an argument against DC statehood, which I favor on the merits. It's an argument against viewing DC statehood as some sort of fix to Senate malapportionment.
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Have you heard of Wilmer McLean? He was a Virginian who lived in Manassas. The Confederacy used his house as a headquarters during Bull Run, the first real battle of the war, which took place on his farm. At one point, a cannonball went through his kitchen window. 1/
After the war began in earnest, McLean moved his family further south, in an attempt to escape the fighting. He settled them in Appomattox. 2/
When Lee agreed to surrender to Grant, his aides sought out a place in Appomattox Courthouse to hold the surrender meeting. Totally coincidentally, they knocked on McLean’s door, and he agreed to host the meeting. 3/
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