Danny Hirschel-Burns
@dhirschelburns.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer in St Andrews’ (🏴) School of International Relations. Yale poli sci PhD. Violence, state-building, ideology, Colombia, and qual methods.
And today, with unrestrained executive power, a powerful DHS, and bellicose American unilateralism, we’re unfortunately living in the world that he built
November 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
And today, with unrestrained executive power, a powerful DHS, and bellicose American unilateralism, we’re unfortunately living in the world that he built
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The "don't talk about social issues" strategy only works if you *admit that was your strategy after the fact*. We're in this doom loop where Democrats try something, gaslight themselves into believing they didn't try it, then decide to try it again.
"if we just don't talk about it, they can't hit us for talking about it" has been thoroughly discredited but we're going to keep trying it because the point was always that party elites/centrist Dems don't want to talk about those things, not whether it was good strategy/messaging to do so!
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The "don't talk about social issues" strategy only works if you *admit that was your strategy after the fact*. We're in this doom loop where Democrats try something, gaslight themselves into believing they didn't try it, then decide to try it again.
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Yes. There is a near-unanimous bipartisan conventional wisdom about the Democrats becoming 'too woke' even though — again, objectively — they avoided prioritizing social issues in the 2024 campaign.
one of the reasons voters believe the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans is because the democratic party itself believes in the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans
Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇
October 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Yes. There is a near-unanimous bipartisan conventional wisdom about the Democrats becoming 'too woke' even though — again, objectively — they avoided prioritizing social issues in the 2024 campaign.
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Also really driving home the gap in what I’m being told/told to teach students—that it is the AI world & everyone must learn to prompt—versus it is an AI world & everyone must learn data forensics & critical thought if they are to understand politics, violence, & the information environment.
October 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Also really driving home the gap in what I’m being told/told to teach students—that it is the AI world & everyone must learn to prompt—versus it is an AI world & everyone must learn data forensics & critical thought if they are to understand politics, violence, & the information environment.
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This is to me the most baffling aspect. Who would place a bet that the next three years won't feature some terrible horror in the US from the outfit that Badenoch and Jenrick specifically say they want to copy? bsky.app/profile/smka...
The ICE raids aren’t popular even in America. Why do they think people want it here?
October 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
This is to me the most baffling aspect. Who would place a bet that the next three years won't feature some terrible horror in the US from the outfit that Badenoch and Jenrick specifically say they want to copy? bsky.app/profile/smka...