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    1. David Dayen‏Verified account @ddayen 9 Oct 2021

      David Dayen Retweeted Matt Stoller

      This is the perfect encapsulation of the bullshittery of popularism. Democrats should "run" on popular things but never accomplish any of them. It's a demonstrably failed strategy & the final confirmation that these people are smarmy bullshit artists.https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1446977825156780038 …

      David Dayen added,

      Matt StollerVerified account @matthewstoller
      This has in fact been Democratic political strategy for 20 years, punctuated by bailouts. pic.twitter.com/v5bWttOde9
      21 replies 177 retweets 990 likes
    2. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 9 Oct 2021
      Replying to @ddayen

      That is not what Yglesias is arguing. His arg is: Democrats should do things when in office to help people, for normative reasons. But for “electoral purposes,” the evidence that enacting broadly beneficial reforms will redound to the in-power party’s benefit is not strong.

      12 replies 1 retweet 69 likes
    3. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 9 Oct 2021
      Replying to @EricLevitz @ddayen

      Eric Levitz Retweeted (((David Shor)))

      (I haven’t studied the subject much independently, but it does seem like there are at least a decent number of examples of parties suffering losses after implementing such reforms, and a literature on “thermostatic public opinion” offering a theoretical basis for the phenomenon)https://twitter.com/davidshor/status/1435075338250424321 …

      Eric Levitz added,

      (((David Shor)))Verified account @davidshor
      Replying to @PEWilliams_ @interfluidity @mattyglesias
      The fact that LBJ, post WW2 Labour, or even Tommy Douglas (His party lost control of Saskatchewan shortly after they implemented Medicare!) all faced near immediate electoral loss after they passed legislation that is now politically untouchable is very telling
      13 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
    4. Daniel Denvir‏Verified account @DanielDenvir 9 Oct 2021
      Replying to @EricLevitz @ddayen

      In the short term maybe but we definitely know that changing material circumstance powerfully remakes political subjectivities over time: just look at what sprawling segregated post-war suburbanization did to destroy the New Deal coalition and lay the groundwork for the New Right

      3 replies 0 retweets 36 likes
    5. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 9 Oct 2021
      Replying to @DanielDenvir @ddayen

      Yes, I think that’s 100 percent right. I also imagine there might be some counter examples to Shor’s (more recent than the New Deal era). Just wanted to clarify the “popularist” perspective being expressed/its foundations

      4 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    6. Daniel Aldana Cohen‏ @aldatweets 9 Oct 2021
      Replying to @EricLevitz @DanielDenvir @ddayen

      The entire Pink Tide has consisted of re-elections following popular social spending. And it’s still not over yet!

      3 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
    7. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 10 Oct 2021
      Replying to @aldatweets @DanielDenvir @ddayen

      Yeah. Fwiw, I'm not sure that's inconsistent with Shor's worldview, which is based heavily on the "postmaterialism" thesis, i.e. that voting behavior tracks material interests until societies achieve a certain threshold of wealth and voters start shimmying up Maslow's hierarchy

      4 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    8. Seth Ackerman‏ @SethAckerman 10 Oct 2021
      Replying to @EricLevitz @aldatweets and

      i saw you making that argument recently, but where does @davidshor ?

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    9. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 10 Oct 2021
      Replying to @SethAckerman @aldatweets and

      Eric Levitz Retweeted (((David Shor)))

      https://twitter.com/davidshor/status/1433603370292588551?s=21 …

      Eric Levitz added,

      (((David Shor)))Verified account @davidshor
      Replying to @davidshor @Noahpinion and 3 others
      Racial essentialism doesn't explain this moment but post-materialism does! It's funny because it probably has been the center-piece of modern comparative politics for decades but is basically unknown in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmaterialism …
      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    10. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 10 Oct 2021
      Replying to @EricLevitz @SethAckerman and

      (ftr, I find postmaterialism really interesting. But have some reservations, as noted in my piece on it) https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/09/is-america-too-rich-for-class-politics.html …pic.twitter.com/53YqzXxBFN

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Oct 2021
      Replying to @EricLevitz @SethAckerman and

      Last point you make is crucial: "post-materialism" cannot be separated from policy choices that have taken economics out of hands of public debate (i.e. Feds, trade deals that delegate power supernational bodies) and center-left parties adopting austerity & debt restraints.

      10:46 AM - 10 Oct 2021
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        2. Daniel Denvir‏Verified account @DanielDenvir 10 Oct 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @EricLevitz and

          postmaterialism entirely backward in causal argument: it’s the unification of both major parties behind a) neoliberalism and b) culture war politics of the wars on crime, immigrants, drugs, and terror amid wage stagnation and deepening precarity that displaces material politics

          1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
        3. Eric Levitz‏ @EricLevitz 10 Oct 2021
          Replying to @DanielDenvir @HeerJeet and

          Eric Levitz Retweeted (((David Shor)))

          The last time I argued with Shor about this general subject, I believe he maintained that education polarization -- and the concomitant shift towards culture war-centric politics -- were demand-driven phenomena rooted in this demographic shifthttps://twitter.com/davidshor/status/1387132274148352005 …

          Eric Levitz added,

          (((David Shor)))Verified account @davidshor
          Went back and checked the GSS's polling on this: [among white voters] 1970's/80's: less than HS (25% of adults): D+28 Bachelor or more (14% of adults): R+10 2018: less than HS (5% of adults): R+9 Bachelor or more (24% of adults): R+1 Things have changed a lot! https://twitter.com/davidshor/status/1383873369565589511 … pic.twitter.com/49MFimel22
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