Astonishing how hard this administration is working to keep people hungry.
It's clear they are trying maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dems for that suffering. But it's transparently the White House working overtime to keep the suffering going!
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Thanks for the kind words!

Aww, shucks! Thanks! Hope you like the paper! ☺️

*partisanship, which we define as how long a given party supporter…

(I have really lost the habit of writing long threads, maybe for the best).

Here’s the paper link once more if you’ve read this far. Comments welcome! /fin

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In all, we think that the ecological approach has promise to resolve some long-standing questions and answer some new ones about how political parties compete. It might also, perhaps, lead to some better interventions to make our political systems healthier. 13/

Finally, we consider another classic ecological and political question: can a 3rd party (species) invade a two-party system, perhaps filling a niche in the center? The answer turns out to be no: a centrist 3rd party can’t outcompete the incumbents, b/c the centrist voters remain disengaged. 12/

Paradoxically, though, which we define as how long a given party supporter spends with their current party before reconsidering, increases even as overall voters reconsider their choices more often, because ppl become either non-voters or more habitual voters of one party. 11/