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https://twitter.com/nikitabier/status/1865980657580585219The first big issue that emerged very quickly after publication was exactly how much of this was purely a housing / land use issue, and of course this has become a much more mainstream concern over the past decade.
https://twitter.com/marco20307855/status/1864749425958244554
https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1861883034795954245If someone is dumping toxic chemicals in the drinking water, I don’t really care if it’s a small family farm or a publicly traded agribusiness conglomerate or a private equity play or anything else.
https://twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/1859266785666589143But this also worked in the opposite direction, as when Democrats became so sure in 2024 that Harris’ vulnerabilities were identity-based rather than issue-based that they selected Dopey White Guy Tim Walz rather than someone more impressive or who could help her in key states.
https://twitter.com/keithdorejel/status/1858591971255701731In the US context, if you roll the tape back to 2014 it was universally understood at the time that things like DAPA and the embrace of criminal justice reform were political risks. And despite those risks they nearly won in 2016. But it hasn’t worked out.
https://twitter.com/ryanodonnellpa/status/1854999810618654892To be a resident in good standing of MAGA Island you need to basically say nice things about Trump — that’s a huge leap for many (he’s actually a scumbag!) but it’s pretty simple.
https://twitter.com/ajentleson/status/1855040347413315839Skocpol has a long line of scholarship about the role of social movements and mass membership organizations in American politics, and she’s critical of the replacement of that form of politics by a politics dominated by professionalized insider lobby shops.
https://twitter.com/orntwo/status/1851037840274309220Something I think you see every time I get into it with these people is that MAGA is sincerely terrified of discussing the concrete policy stakes — tax cuts for billionaires that explode the deficit, raise interest rates, and bankrupt social security.
https://twitter.com/ClimateDefiance/status/1844110077953011800In addition to slandering hotel staffers by pretending he got pushed, this guy and others kept yelling "why do you support fracking!?!?"
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1816123208925356515Mitt Romney ran to the right on federal spending in 2012 but he *also* moved to the right on immigration — his platform was so far right that despite a broadly appealing personality and a bad economy, he lost to Barack Obama.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1797354844539216331They disagree about Israel, but AOC and Fetterman both support aggressive partisan politics.
https://twitter.com/UMNSDS/status/1782714546559578247Why bring this up?