Thread by @DouthatNYT

This is a good @damonlinker treatment of the @DemJournal "constitutional convention" and its results:
theweek.com/politics/10014…

And this bit from the @mtomasky introduction is an example of the dynamic I wrote about this weekend, where progressives portray the right's current power as vastly more counter-majoritarian than it actually is.

If the Republican Party were actually claiming control of government on the basis of support from one-third of Americans, against a two-thirds Democratic majority, then that would indeed be pretty authoritarian.

In reality the last time the Republicans claimed control of government, 2016, they won the majority of House votes and the GOP and Libertarians together won more votes than Hillary Clinton.

Meanwhile as Linker notes the intellectual-progressive alternative to this alleged near-authoritarian moment is a rewrite of the constitution that ... enshrines progressive policies and removes them from democratic debate.