Good points for MOCs in particular, but this may be less of a problem for city councilors or state legislators. LA city council members get paid over $200K, for example. In NYC it's about $150K. Chicago a bit less. Can't do it everywhere, for sure. But some should consider it, I think.

Definitely a potential downside, but here in NYC for example 80% of the Area Median Income for a single person is around $90K, which is pretty good despite high COL. NYC Council salary is about $150K, state leg salaries a bit lower. Could be doable for normal people in some situations, I think.

I've long thought that one of the heterodox non-ideological things candidates could do is pledge to not take their office's full salary if elected, but only the district median while donating the rest. Not feasible where elected salaries are very low but maybe elsewhere, like blue cities/states?

I don’t think that’s half baked! It’s an expression of social democracy in a postindustrial political economy. Coalition between immigrant service workers and the college educated but economically squeezed, organized around making habitation (particularly housing but not only) cheaper and better.

Piss Boyz 4 Zohran (and Brad)

Vance has always been like this. Any journalist who read Hillbilly Elegy should have immediately clocked how it was a statement of Charles Murray Thought in the guise of a personal narrative. Not exactly the stuff of national reconciliation!

wow, I hope it was worth it

Do we know whether the SPÖ's loss in vote share basically just shifted over to the KPÖ, or is it too early for that kind of data?