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12 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I’m a fan of the 'deliverism' label; I’ve thought for a while now that Dems need to demonstrate facility at delivering policies/projects on time & on—or under—budget.

Messaging debates skirt the party’s core difficulty—which is one of actions, not words. prospect.org/politics/case-…
See also, e.g., the occasional conversation on here about the 20th-century successes of ‘sewer socialism’ …
… and @pareene on the wretched dysfunction of public services across much of the country … newrepublic.com/article/159339…
… and @jbarro on how building infrastructure in America requires astronomical sums in comparison with just about any other wealthy country. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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Greg Greene Profile picture
12 Oct
“Mississippi’s relative poverty is … a consequence of federal programs” — like what, generations of upholding the ownership of people as property?

“… and a lack of liberty”: such as the treatment of thousands and thousands of people as property?
Mississippi: a state that ritually and ruthlessly impoverished the majority of its people for decades, and then chose to blame outside federal agitators for its impoverishment.
Meanwhile, in Alabama: “As a couple of companies … break ground on … new prisons paid for with [COVID relief] dollars, school districts all over Ala. are sending messages home to parents asking that they find a way to send food to school with their kids.”
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Greg Greene Profile picture
10 Oct
When I made an observation to someone about popularism yesterday, I managed to channel this @jbouie column without even realizing it. nytimes.com/2021/10/09/opi…
What I realized yesterday: my skepticism of popularism hinges on how ideology plays out, in practice, as a scan of a screenshot of a picture — downsampled and stripped of most of its nuance.
In other words: ideology is written in poetry, and executed in prose.

Conservatism has always offered high-minded ideals about rugged individualism and the genius of free markets, for instance. In practice, though — in the hands of post-1994 Gingrich acolytes …
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29 Sep
Time for progressives to make like an electric truck and #TankIt, I suppose.
If a counterparty in a negotiation refuses to even begin negotiating, there’s little choice left but to move along to the best alternative to a negotiated agreement. That’s not the BIF — which falls short of addressing the climate challenge and other needs. It’s nothing.
If Manchin’s best alternative to a negotiated agreement proves to be nothing as well, we may be stuck. At least we’ll have clarity about that situation, though.
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28 Sep
Sargent has this right: when Dems spend their time explaining Republicans’ irresponsibility on the debt limit, they’re missing the point. What Dems _want_ the public to view as hypocrisy is intended, in fact, to demonstrate Republicans’ power to do as they please.
To sputter about hypocrisy makes Dems look feckless. Republicans are being consistent: they’re asserting that they can do as they please, and don’t mind if anyone calls them out.

Dems would do well to refuse to play along — by junking the debt limit entirely.
“[Republicans] must allow us”: no, Sen. Durbin, they won’t allow it. The whole goal here is to demonstrate Republicans’ power _by disallowing it_.

Dems get nowhere by appealing to some imagined, impartial center to judge this hypocrisy for what it is.
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27 Sep
He’s complaining about Catherine Rampell, who _is_ a columnist for the Washington Post — while Brit Hume is the man who serve up glistening gems of thought like these: ImageImageImage
(* _serves_ up)
Hume “can assure us [he] is not” having fantasies about Trump’s anatomy: yes, we already know.
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24 Sep
The centrist approach to policy making remains aloof from Dems’ political interests — and unaffected by the lessons of the last Dem trifecta.

By deferring policies that solve problems for *4 election cycles*, Dems forgo most of the benefit of whatever political risks they took.
Like … aside from a sprightlier CBO score, there is *no upside * to deferring benefits to a huge voting bloc for *7 years*.

A policy delayed for that long before implementation may as well not exist — in political terms _and_ because a future Congress can bloodlessly undo it.
All I want for Christmas is a Democratic Party purged of all reticence about embracing the possibilities of policy feedback.
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