Political Theorist from the University of Cambridge.
Author of The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut
Apr 13, 2024 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
A short🧵on Rawls:
For Rawls, democratic equality requires something like his principle of distributive justice. But to ‘select among’ principles, we need to ‘take the idea’ ‘of citizens as free and equal’ ‘seriously’...
The principles which do this are ‘those that would be selected by the citizens themselves when fairly represented as free and equal'
They are not necessarily the principles that Rawls himself prefers. This means that Rawls is not politically committed to the principles he prefers
Jan 29, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
As Republicans throw their lot in w/the Trump wing of their party, they become vulnerable to pressure from the left
GOP base voters are skeptical of their bona fides, and they need to credibly perform hostility to the elite to keep the base on side (1/?)
The left can challenge these guys to support policies that help workers, forcing them to put their money where their mouths are
Bernie did this w/Hawley on the checks
AOC could do this w/Cruz on regulation, if getting things done were her priority (2/?)
