stable dictatorships (such as china's) regularly conduct public opinion polling and are careful not to go too far out of bounds. a republican dictatorship would not do that.https://twitter.com/MenshevikM/status/1527047525101969409 …
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it is profoundly unclear that they can do it for a long, long time.
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They cannot govern in this way. They can prevent governance, but actually doing things that people will notice and resent (aca reform) doesn't seem to go well for them.
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Underestimating, indeed!
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A thing from the Trump Administration, though, is that folks on the far right do seem to expect a lot of systems that actually are conducted and maintained by government will still work, even without funding or employees.
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Fortunately they have an elegant solution: Fund those systems with legalized bribes
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They may be defeated but so many people will be harmed.
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I have wondered what will happen as authoritarian courts and state and federal governments that do not have to respond to voters’ preferences, what’s going to happen as majority opinion and R preferred policies get more and more distant from each other.
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I think you missed jbouie's point. The gang that wants to kill the administrative state might not like 35% interest rates on their credit cards, lunchmeat with salmonella, and rivers so polluted that fishing is just a memory.
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Does it matter? Once Pandora’s Box is opened, it’s moot.
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