1. This gets at something very odd about how the Democrats see politics which came out in the debate over Shorism & popularism -- as a service industry where the job is to get as many customers as possible but provide them with the bare minimum to keep their patronage.https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1450447407595016193 …
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4. (Tangentially, this is why somber invocations of Weber & the ethics of responsibility miss the mark. Weber's politics came from an honor culture where there was emotional investment in stakes. Dem operatives are in sales culture of careerism. The Duel versus The Office).
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5. For more on the promise and peril of "popularism" and its narrow view of politics, I sat down with
@bellye66 for a little chat:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-david-shors-popularism?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source= …Show this thread
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Dude, yr typos are out of control.
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sorry, need coffee.
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I think it's a fair assessment given that the remaining 85% give or take a few seems entirely content to let that 15% run roughshod over any apparent agenda.
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Also lots of stuff polled on majority only have a vague notion of how it works (eg gov't debt) or have idiotic opinions on (eg term limits).
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ISTM that most Dems in this Congress really want to deliver. It's really only a few - Manchinema and probably two or three others being able to coast on their opposition - who don't want to get big things done
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