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NYTimes columnist, National Review film critic, author of The Decadent Society (2020) and The Deep Places (2021), jottings at https://douthat.substack.com 

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    1. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 5 Nov 2020

      Good @EricLevitz look at the agony of progressivism, to which I would append one thought:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/2020-election-results-biden-won-democrats-senate-loss.html …

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      Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 5 Nov 2020

      Some of the agony is a rage against the injustice of winning popular majorities and being unable to govern. But it's important to recall that modern America has no tradition of 49-47 or 51-48 majorities leading to sweeping legislative change.

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        2. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 5 Nov 2020

          The major eras of ideological legislation -- New Deal, Great Society, and to a lesser extent Reaganism -- all depended on larger presidential majorities. Presidents who sought big change on smaller majorities (Bush after '04, for instance) have been quickly rebuked.

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        3. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 5 Nov 2020

          So if you just looked at the last century of U.S. history, you would assume that progressive goals needed a big-Democratic-majority "moment," not just "winning a series of presidential popular votes super-narrowly."

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        4. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 5 Nov 2020

          The same goes for my populist friends on the right: The problem with Trump as a vehicle for a new populism *as an agenda* was always that his support had (yes) a ceiling, that he probably wasn't ever going to match even Dubya in '04.

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        5. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 5 Nov 2020

          Now maybe under polarization there's just no possibility of landslides so you simply have to force any reform agenda through 51-49. But if so that represents a big change in how US politics works, w/no clear precedent, and it shouldn't be surprising that it's tough to pull off.

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        6. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 5 Nov 2020

          My own view is that the (hopefully) post-decadence American future belongs to the first statesman who can be a 55-45 president for more than Obama's six months. But admittedly he or she has not yet made their appearance.

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        1. Spencer Heckwolf‏ @SpencerHeckwolf 5 Nov 2020
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          Supreme Court.

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        1. Star Spangled Sanford‏ @quesoliker 5 Nov 2020
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          It’s hilarious that the piece doesn’t account for the complete ratfucking of the mail-in ballots by the head of the post office

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        2. Dorothy Fortenberry‏Verified account @Dorothy410berry 5 Nov 2020
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          would you call the Iraq War sweeping legislative change?

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        3. the 69th state‏ @districtyoder 5 Nov 2020
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          Is the pandemic, like 9/11, enough impetus for wide ranging change?

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        2. Adso of Melk‏ @PalimpsestMan 5 Nov 2020

          LOL, if you mean putting a stake through the heart of judicial legislating with a living constitution, good. Shame it hadn't happened sooner.

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