There's a recurring theme in Democratic circles that I think is under-examined, that goes "if only the rules were fair our party would win bigly". It's part of a wider feeling of denial about the last few years. I think Nate is right to call this out, and we need a better plan.https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1398290263320170501 …
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Replying to @Pinboard
I think this is right, but I think that the corollary that you seemed to be drawing a week or so ago -that therefore Democratic worries about the viability of small-d democracy in US are overblown - is not right. They get muddled together by Dem partisans but they're v. different
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Replying to @henryfarrell
I think those concerns reframe what is a political battle as a rules battle, which is one Democrats have always been more comfortable fighting. I would like to see more ruthlessness and less signaling for the refs to blow the whistle, hence my impatience with this angle
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Replying to @Pinboard
Yeah - my point is narrower - that independent of the prospects for Democrats winning, the problems of American democracy are real, and getting worse. That many Democrats conflate the former with the latter is certainly a problem, but the latter is still really big.
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Replying to @henryfarrell
I think of the voting restrictions as more of the downstream effect of having two disjoint public spheres that have lost contact with each other, and one of which is unmoored from reality entirely. If I could fix or change one thing that would be it
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That I think is clear, but I don’t know anyone who has good solutions, or more than the beginning of ways to think about what such solutions might involve. Anyway, that’s what I have to say.
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I have no solutions either, I feel like I hit a brick wall.
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