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Steph
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Little-d democrat. Feminist. Modern New Dealer.
And the fact that the system creates greater incentive for these folks to act as representatives of a national political party than as representatives of a geographic area or as leaders of a separate, co-equal branch of government only underscores the Article I failure hiding in plain sight.
September 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The fact that their
September 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Not crazy!
September 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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On the slate gabfest this week, she discussed a revealing part of their strategy, which is to find takes that will generate engagement and reach, especially through arguments that generate intra-left conflict. I suspect you can create a successful business on this premise, but not so much a polity
August 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Having a plurality of extremists in your electoral coalition is a huge problem when institutions empower them directly
August 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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checkpoints are by definition stops made without reasonable suspicion. They are presumptively unconstitutional. I don’t know what they’re saying this is about, but I’m certain whatever they say will be a pretext for general crime-detection and that that is not ok.
August 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I got thoughts
August 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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From a director at the … American Enterprise Institute
August 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM