It's worth unpacking "whenever we've tried to [have] this fight in the past." Democrats (and also Sanders) actually downplayed the guns issue after 1994. But Sandy Hooks & subsequent horrors made that harder politically. Politics isn't just about strategy: events have impacthttps://twitter.com/davidshor/status/1529627802735104000 …
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There's a type of political strategizing predicated on idea that parties can choose which issues to highlight, which is true only to a limited degree in a nation with a robust civil society & weak or weakish parties. External events impose themselves.
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Makes democracy look weak
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authoritarian governments are better at maintaining a monopoly on violence but that's about it
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between covid, guns, and police violence it’s high times for people who label themselves empiricists but proceed as if externalities don’t exist
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the world you’d prefer to live in doesn’t exist, fellas! take it up with schroedinger
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Formulating clean, understandable policy design seems ever so hard for Dems.
@JoshTPM did one all on his own: "We need two senators, here's what happens if we get them." A clean gun pitch. "We're not taking on the 2nd. We're taking on weapons of war on the streets of the USA."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I think that, plus the claim that losing votes significantly increases the chance that Trump becomes president and has the FBI arrest his political enemies, is exactly the argument.
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Isn’t the lesson to do gun control and then ignore it.
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That's actually the single best lesson for the Democrats. They could have canceled all student debt the first month of Biden's presidency. By this point on one but the people who it affected would remember it happened.
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Don't really disagree, but do want to note that many dem leaders are pretty inept at fighting on this issue in a way that doesn't alienate more reasonable moderate and leftist gun owners.
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