While I'm on one, it would be easier to depose Schumer (though still hard) as minority. But the Congressional Black Caucus would raise holy hell if a bunch of white progressives and moderates tried to depose the potential first Black Speaker of the House. The CBC is the nerve center in the House.

I mean, I appreciate the call for more attention to affect but that's been a part of communication and rhetorical studies for a long time. Le Bon was writing about propaganda and crowds in the 1890s!

Very cool!

@sethkjolly.bsky.social can say more but CHES seems like a good choice for this and has a shinyapp on their website to do some visualization as well. chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/

This is basically also my position on AI :)

Love it! From Syracuse Post Standard in 2021.

I talked about this with my students. I think that basically very few people in NYC had latent attitudes on free buses but Mamdani puts it on the agenda, links it to other things people care about and makes it an issue. Candidates can shape opinion (which is why popularism makes me nuts)

Ground-level results in the swing state places where the “Real Folkz” live where Democrats did just fine tonight. I guess they figured out how not to Talk Funny, Do Politics The Right Way, & offer voters an Abundance of Popularism. Or maybe that’s not really how it all works after all.