Alan Grieve
@zvagri.bsky.social
Could you possibly post a more pusillanimous report? Who do you think has attacked Caracas? Liechtenstein?
January 3, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Could you possibly post a more pusillanimous report? Who do you think has attacked Caracas? Liechtenstein?
Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by 2,868,686 votes. That could not have been fixed by running a different campaign. If Trump had not won the electoral college in 2016 he would not have been a viable candidate in 2020 or 2024.
May 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by 2,868,686 votes. That could not have been fixed by running a different campaign. If Trump had not won the electoral college in 2016 he would not have been a viable candidate in 2020 or 2024.
Trump would not have become president in 2016 without the electoral college. His campaign would have been regarded, correctly, as a disaster for the Republicans. It’s unlikely he would have been renominated.
May 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Trump would not have become president in 2016 without the electoral college. His campaign would have been regarded, correctly, as a disaster for the Republicans. It’s unlikely he would have been renominated.
See Ganghof’s book for free at https://academic.oup.com/book/38917?login=false
Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism: Democratic Design and the Separation of Powers
Abstract. In a democracy, a constitutional separation of powers between the executive and the assembly may be desirable, but the constitutional concentrati
academic.oup.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
See Ganghof’s book for free at https://academic.oup.com/book/38917?login=false
Louis-Napoleon attempted a coup in Strasbourg on 29 October 1836. Chávez attempted a coup on 4 February 1992. Perón took part in the coup of 4 June 1943. Neither Perón nor Chávez can seriously be described as rightwing.
April 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Louis-Napoleon attempted a coup in Strasbourg on 29 October 1836. Chávez attempted a coup on 4 February 1992. Perón took part in the coup of 4 June 1943. Neither Perón nor Chávez can seriously be described as rightwing.
Orbán, Perón, Louis-Napoleon, Chávez…
April 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Orbán, Perón, Louis-Napoleon, Chávez…
I’m absolutely not saying it’s impossible, or that the attempt won’t happen, but it would take much greater organising skills than Trump has ever shown.
April 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I’m absolutely not saying it’s impossible, or that the attempt won’t happen, but it would take much greater organising skills than Trump has ever shown.
Hungary was around 18000 when Orbán took power.
An authoritarian turn gets orders of magnitude harder in a big complicated country, as the GKChP discovered in Moscow in 1991.
An authoritarian turn gets orders of magnitude harder in a big complicated country, as the GKChP discovered in Moscow in 1991.
April 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Hungary was around 18000 when Orbán took power.
An authoritarian turn gets orders of magnitude harder in a big complicated country, as the GKChP discovered in Moscow in 1991.
An authoritarian turn gets orders of magnitude harder in a big complicated country, as the GKChP discovered in Moscow in 1991.
…no democracy richer than Argentina in 1976—its per capita GDP, in today’s dollars, was about $16,000—had ever broken down.
— Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
— Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
April 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
…no democracy richer than Argentina in 1976—its per capita GDP, in today’s dollars, was about $16,000—had ever broken down.
— Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
— Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
The senate reflects popular opinion more accurately than the house. It follows that ‘unrepresentative swill’ is uninformed nonfact.
April 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The senate reflects popular opinion more accurately than the house. It follows that ‘unrepresentative swill’ is uninformed nonfact.
The fairness of a voting system doesn’t depend on whether you disapprove who gets elected. In 1998 One Nation won 11 seats in the Queensland parliament. They’ve never held 11 seats in the senate.
April 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The fairness of a voting system doesn’t depend on whether you disapprove who gets elected. In 1998 One Nation won 11 seats in the Queensland parliament. They’ve never held 11 seats in the senate.
In Britain it was 1979. Parliamentary legislators tend, if anything, to be more subservient to the executive and more disciplined by their parties than congressional legislators.
April 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In Britain it was 1979. Parliamentary legislators tend, if anything, to be more subservient to the executive and more disciplined by their parties than congressional legislators.
Sorry, but that’s fantasy. Parliamentary votes of no confidence are actually incredibly rare. The last time government changed hands in Australia because of a vote of no confidence was 1942.
April 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Sorry, but that’s fantasy. Parliamentary votes of no confidence are actually incredibly rare. The last time government changed hands in Australia because of a vote of no confidence was 1942.
You’d have think Republican senators who’ve been threatened with Musk-backed primary campaigns are going to read the Wisconsin results with some interest.
April 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
You’d have think Republican senators who’ve been threatened with Musk-backed primary campaigns are going to read the Wisconsin results with some interest.
That is simply untrue. Anne Twomey, who is the leading scholar on this topic, says it was the Imperial Conference in 192 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1301166
March 31, 2025 at 12:43 AM
That is simply untrue. Anne Twomey, who is the leading scholar on this topic, says it was the Imperial Conference in 192 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1301166
You cannot be suggesting that Trump’s long record of lying means we shouldn’t believe everything that comes out of his White House.
January 27, 2025 at 5:34 AM
You cannot be suggesting that Trump’s long record of lying means we shouldn’t believe everything that comes out of his White House.
On the contrary:
The Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942, assented on 9 December 1942, says nothing about the old idea of indivisibility of the Crown, and has no retrospective provisions.
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1942A00056/latest/text
The Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942, assented on 9 December 1942, says nothing about the old idea of indivisibility of the Crown, and has no retrospective provisions.
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1942A00056/latest/text
January 27, 2025 at 5:26 AM
On the contrary:
The Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942, assented on 9 December 1942, says nothing about the old idea of indivisibility of the Crown, and has no retrospective provisions.
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1942A00056/latest/text
The Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942, assented on 9 December 1942, says nothing about the old idea of indivisibility of the Crown, and has no retrospective provisions.
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1942A00056/latest/text
Amendment XII, last sentence: But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
December 29, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Amendment XII, last sentence: But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.