https://stoehr.substack.com/p/quick-take-dont-worry-about-dem-anxiety
«This is the time of the season where people start talking crazy. Journalists love it when people talk crazy. …. Bottom line: anxiety is natural and healthy but don’t make much of it.»
(I subscribed.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/too-short-lives-black-men/600628/
«Like so many other black men in America, Elijah Cummings died too young.»
Something like this was the one of the first thoughts I had when I heard he had died.
Here are some more links:
Boom:
«“There’s a reason why ‘Profiles in Courage’ is a very short book. …”»
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/25/katie-hill-democrats-politics-
«Still, Hill’s own conduct – tacky, unprofessional, and ill-advised as it was – pales in comparison to what is being done to her, which amounts to a misogynist rightwing smear campaign. The publication of the nude photograph belies any claim Red State and other Republicans may make to being concerned about the ethics of Hill’s conduct. Instead, what Hill’s attackers seem interested in is a wholesale discrediting of the congresswoman, complete with psychological abuse, public humiliation, and misogynist cruelty of the kind that is all too common an experience for women, from the most vulnerable to the most powerful among them. The fact that Hill is not a perfect victim should not distract us from the true issue at hand: that Red State and its rightwing compatriots have brought the tactics of domestic abuse into our politics.
….
Hill, for her part, describes her ex-husband as abusive. We do not know where the nude picture of her came from, but if he was the one who sent it in for publication, then that description would seem accurate.»
https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/national-politics/can-warren-beat-trump
Warren needs to appeal both to economic concerns and to people’s sense of decency. Maybe also call out how much our racism hurts us white people. We go gunning for black and brown people in denying school lunches and pre-natal healthcare and so on, and we wind up hurting a lot more people than we think. Which is one of the reasons we have stats like 18th in the world in terms of infant mortality (and the list goes on and on). (Better to just not be racist, obviously.)
«At least three political scientists John Sides, Lynn Vavreck and Michael Tesler, argue that race, not economic populism, was the main driver in the 2016 election. In their analysis of that election, Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America, they write: “attitudes concerning race, ethnicity, and religion were more strongly related to how Americans voted in 2016 than in recent elections. By contrast, the apparent impact of economic anxiety was much smaller and not particularly distinctive compared to earlier elections. This activation of racial attitudes helped Trump more than Clinton.”
And, in 2020, it will help Trump again.»
https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1187358929023578113?s=17
Tom Gara (@tomgara) Tweeted:
«One caveat to all this: “he is calling for moving toward a system that gets the government out of student lending,” meaning, I think, one where it’s much harder / maybe impossible to get a student loan if you’re poor.»
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1187068587602796545?s=17
“Little flash mob.” 😀
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) Tweeted:
«Important to remember that GOP&Dem members have been part of impeachment depositions this whole time.
All you need is to sit on the relevant committees.
If these guys are so mad, maybe they should take their little flash mob to the @GOPLeader who didn’t assign them to the task.»
https://twitter.com/d_f_stone/status/1186763068988121088?s=17
Go get ’em, Liz. 🙂
daniel f stone (@d_f_stone) Tweeted:
«“Use it or lose it: Efficiency gains from wealth taxation [great title!]… Wealth taxation shifts the tax burden toward unproductive entrepreneurs….”
Makes sense & looks like important paper. Nber version- https://t.co/Yo5ORXV2c7
Ungated-
https://t.co/kQUsBr5eMF »
Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) Tweeted:
«Replacing corporate income taxes with wealth taxes is a good idea, since it taxes unproductive rich people more than productive rich people.
Note that we’ve already cut the corporate tax under Trump, so Warren’s wealth tax would just be Step 2!»
https://t.co/C1c54gWIFn https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1186741054638178304?s=17
https://twitter.com/tucker_doherty/status/1186664216150843394?s=17
Tucker Doherty (@tucker_doherty) Tweeted:
«After declining by 24% during the Obama years, average air pollution (PM2.5) has increased by 5% in the U.S. since 2016, resulting in an estimated 9,700 additional premature deaths in 2018.»
If we can take the Senate and the White House (and keep the House), we can do all sorts of fun things: axe the filibuster, reapportion the House, add some more Supreme Court justices.
