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Hakeem Jeffries, Fox News, and the Dangers of Sloppy Rhetoric
It would be nice if politicians and cable news outlets were more responsible.
It would be nice if politicians and cable news outlets were more responsible.
We used to (usually) know the results on Election Night because the outcomes were clearer.
It would be nice if the legislature represented the voters and whatnot.
Autocrats facing defeat have all kinds of counterproductive, dangerous ideas.
More details from the Alaska special election.
American parties are coordination problems with shared branding.
This is as close as we get to Garland saying “Eff around, find out!”
“America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us.”
Can American democracy survive its information bubbles?
What should conservatives who can’t support the party of Trump do?
Assuming they had the votes, should Democrats carve out yet another exception?
Yet another reminder of the pathologies of American institutions.
Tweaking the message and getting out the vote don’t matter as much as strategists think.
They’re taking their eye off the ball.
The NYT and CA41 and yet another example of telling the wrong story.
The President continues his recent penchant for saying the quiet part out loud.