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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 13 Nov 2020

      Let me briefly defend @ezraklein's claims about the centrality of polarization to America's problems against @ezraklein's argument that the "dearth of the democracy" is really America's biggest challenge.https://www.vox.com/21561011/2020-election-joe-biden-donald-trump-electoral-college-vote-senate-democracy …

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    2. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 13 Nov 2020

      I'm sympathetic to the idea that the G.O.P. would be a better political formation if it were forced to compete more outside its rural/exurban base, which is one reason among many I don't particularly fear the abolition of the filibuster or the addition of new states. But ...

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    3. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 13 Nov 2020

      ... one thing that 2020 should make clear is that the G.O.P., while not a majority coalition, is a *highly* competitive one relative to minority coalitions in the US past. It isn't staring down the barrel of demographic collapse. It's always within hailing distance of 50 percent.

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    4. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 13 Nov 2020

      Look at House popular vote share, one possible proxy for what a parliamentary system might look like. In the last ten years we've had one Democratic wave election: D+8 in 2018. The other margins: R+1 in 2016, R + 6 in 2014, D +1 in 2012, R +7 in 2010. 2020 is D+2 right now.

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      Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 13 Nov 2020

      So if we ditched the electoral college and the Senate and just governed the whole country through the House, we would get ... extremely tight margins with maybe a tiny D advantage in high turnout elections, and constant power switches.

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        2. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 13 Nov 2020

          At the presidential level Ds do have a popular advantage. But if you start the current era with Bush v. Gore, their average popular vote advantage is +2.5. If you compare that the average presidential margin in any 20th century period, that's small bordering on infinitesimal.

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        3. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 13 Nov 2020

          This suggests to me that the GOP's countermajoritarian advantages are, indeed, preventing it from having to make certain moderating adaptations -- but those missing adaptations are the policy/rhetoric equivalent of a 2% shift in public opinion, not some dramatic leftward move.

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        4. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 13 Nov 2020

          Which suggests, in turn, that what's gridlocking American government above all at the moment is the fact that *both* coalitions are stuck around 50 percent - Dems maybe just above, Rs just below - not that the Ds have a big popular mandate that's being unfairly blunted.

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        5. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 13 Nov 2020

          Note that we we tested this in 2020 by achieving incredibly high turnout, and got -- the same basic kind of highly polarized, small-D-margin popular-vote result for both the presidency and the House.

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        6. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 13 Nov 2020

          So, long and short, I think breaking out of polarization would transform American politics far more than just bringing House/presidential results perfectly in line with popular vote totals. Now go buy Ezra's book.

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        1. mkazin‏ @mkazin 13 Nov 2020
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          But if HR 1 passed, a lot more non-voters might vote and most would probably vote Dem. And what if apportionment was handled by non-partisan commissions?

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        2. Rich Baker‏ @Richard_Henry_7 13 Nov 2020
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          Which, if I understand Ezra's point, would de-escalate tensions somewhat because people would actually be able to see the outcomes of policy, rather than have politics default to a stagnant identity battle.

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        1. Former Puma‏ @R0vil 13 Nov 2020
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          Or Rs would moderate unpopular positions like tax cuts for corporations/rich. Rs presently shielded by +6 (or whatever) lean in Senate and EC.

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        2. John, who hikes‏ @jjhikes 13 Nov 2020
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          So we just have to break up the big states until the Senate resembles the House! It's the only thing that is Constitutional and requires only a majority in Congress.

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