Sam Rosenfeld
@samrosenfeld.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science, Colgate University. Author of "The Polarizers": https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo24660595.html
ActBlue, Open Society, Indivisible—terrorists all.
Note how slipshod, confused, and ramshackle this project sounds even from quoted behind-the-scenes insiders. Miller WANTS it to sound maximally ominous and intimidating. The targets should hold their heads high and carry on.
Note how slipshod, confused, and ramshackle this project sounds even from quoted behind-the-scenes insiders. Miller WANTS it to sound maximally ominous and intimidating. The targets should hold their heads high and carry on.
October 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
ActBlue, Open Society, Indivisible—terrorists all.
Note how slipshod, confused, and ramshackle this project sounds even from quoted behind-the-scenes insiders. Miller WANTS it to sound maximally ominous and intimidating. The targets should hold their heads high and carry on.
Note how slipshod, confused, and ramshackle this project sounds even from quoted behind-the-scenes insiders. Miller WANTS it to sound maximally ominous and intimidating. The targets should hold their heads high and carry on.
Is this the first Dem MC to say this explicitly? That the reason this is the GOP’s shutdown isn’t because they “refuse to negotiate” or whatever but because they in fact have the power at any moment to nuke the filibuster and pass whatever they want to keep the govt operating?
October 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Is this the first Dem MC to say this explicitly? That the reason this is the GOP’s shutdown isn’t because they “refuse to negotiate” or whatever but because they in fact have the power at any moment to nuke the filibuster and pass whatever they want to keep the govt operating?
ONE EDITION
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September 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
ONE EDITION
AFTER
ANOTHER
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Seeing Don Bacon mix it up with critics and energetically defend this bill is instructive. He's a moderate who isn't seeking re-election. He's voting for this because, whatever his marginal objections, he believes in the agenda the bill embodies. The same goes for the vast majority of his party.
July 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Seeing Don Bacon mix it up with critics and energetically defend this bill is instructive. He's a moderate who isn't seeking re-election. He's voting for this because, whatever his marginal objections, he believes in the agenda the bill embodies. The same goes for the vast majority of his party.
In March, we took a shot at diagnosing this tendency in the DNC and beyond. We venture no sweeping explanation, but do note a self-reinforcing dynamic, stemming from formal party organizations' relative backwater status within modern party networks.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
June 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
In March, we took a shot at diagnosing this tendency in the DNC and beyond. We venture no sweeping explanation, but do note a self-reinforcing dynamic, stemming from formal party organizations' relative backwater status within modern party networks.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
To the extent that FF was right about this, it underscores the failure of the admin's own political bet on ambitious economic and welfare-state policy to stem class dealignment and save the country from MAGA. (More on that here: nplusonemag.com/online-only/...)
June 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
To the extent that FF was right about this, it underscores the failure of the admin's own political bet on ambitious economic and welfare-state policy to stem class dealignment and save the country from MAGA. (More on that here: nplusonemag.com/online-only/...)
1. Having two competing giant campaign apparatuses, one shrouded in anonymity, pursuing conflicting strategies at the same time--well, that's party hollowness. (Out in paperback this fall!) The Harris swap may have exacerbated things, but it would've happened under Biden as well.
June 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
1. Having two competing giant campaign apparatuses, one shrouded in anonymity, pursuing conflicting strategies at the same time--well, that's party hollowness. (Out in paperback this fall!) The Harris swap may have exacerbated things, but it would've happened under Biden as well.
It had been a steady slow decline through the end of April, then a slow modest rebound—there wasn’t really a Liberation Day acceleration or hinge point.
www.natesilver.net/p/trump-appr...
www.natesilver.net/p/trump-appr...
June 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
It had been a steady slow decline through the end of April, then a slow modest rebound—there wasn’t really a Liberation Day acceleration or hinge point.
www.natesilver.net/p/trump-appr...
www.natesilver.net/p/trump-appr...
He’s heading back down now, but I feel like there isn’t much of a consensus explanation for why Trump’s numbers had started to drift back up over the last month.
June 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
He’s heading back down now, but I feel like there isn’t much of a consensus explanation for why Trump’s numbers had started to drift back up over the last month.
Such an absolute Type. A true recurring Guy through the ages! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
June 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Such an absolute Type. A true recurring Guy through the ages! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Josh Hawley got a lot of attention for his strong and seemingly unambiguous stance against Medicaid cuts in an NYT op-ed earlier this month, but he's indicated he's for the work requirements, which mainly just dis-insure people via paperwork burdens.
May 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Josh Hawley got a lot of attention for his strong and seemingly unambiguous stance against Medicaid cuts in an NYT op-ed earlier this month, but he's indicated he's for the work requirements, which mainly just dis-insure people via paperwork burdens.
Richest man on the planet. Just staggering stuff.
May 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Richest man on the planet. Just staggering stuff.
Trump takes big swings on plenty of stuff so it’s telling to see him so clumsily backpedaling, on THIS specific issue, from the implications of his own supposed party realignment.
For all of MAGA’s disruptions, rich people’s taxes remain the lodestar of GOP politics.
For all of MAGA’s disruptions, rich people’s taxes remain the lodestar of GOP politics.
May 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Trump takes big swings on plenty of stuff so it’s telling to see him so clumsily backpedaling, on THIS specific issue, from the implications of his own supposed party realignment.
For all of MAGA’s disruptions, rich people’s taxes remain the lodestar of GOP politics.
For all of MAGA’s disruptions, rich people’s taxes remain the lodestar of GOP politics.
tfw the thing you’ve always done takes on newly virtuous pedagogical branding
May 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
tfw the thing you’ve always done takes on newly virtuous pedagogical branding
Revised Loomer Edition
May 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Revised Loomer Edition
For @newrepublic.com, I wrote about a new Michael Lewis-edited essay collection on hero civil servants, and the comparatively permeable, not-so-deep state they've administered (until now). newrepublic.com/article/1946...
May 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
For @newrepublic.com, I wrote about a new Michael Lewis-edited essay collection on hero civil servants, and the comparatively permeable, not-so-deep state they've administered (until now). newrepublic.com/article/1946...
Bush's Echo Chamber www.nytimes.com/2004/11/19/o...
April 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Bush's Echo Chamber www.nytimes.com/2004/11/19/o...
Bump points to solid empirical evidence of a worsening problem over the last decade, but if you're old enough to remember the tenure of our *last* two-term Republican president, this headline should look eerily familiar.
April 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Bump points to solid empirical evidence of a worsening problem over the last decade, but if you're old enough to remember the tenure of our *last* two-term Republican president, this headline should look eerily familiar.
Actually, complication in this I hadn’t realized!
April 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Actually, complication in this I hadn’t realized!
Original story, a heavily black cast with distinctively African American historical themes, lots of sex: “Sinners” as a big-budget studio movie feels in lots of ways like a kind of antithesis of the everything-marketed-for-China era documented by Erich Schwartzel.
April 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Original story, a heavily black cast with distinctively African American historical themes, lots of sex: “Sinners” as a big-budget studio movie feels in lots of ways like a kind of antithesis of the everything-marketed-for-China era documented by Erich Schwartzel.
