Will wants Dems to push tough anti-corruption legislation. Some of these reforms may be worth doing but I take a slightly different view.pic.twitter.com/Yfg7Zd9Igc
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"The continued survival of the American system may turn on shutting down would-be Trumps. In the near term that means limiting the opportunity to use public office for private gain."https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/opinion/democrats-trump-corruption.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage …
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@jon_rauch's short book, Political Realism. It persuaded me previous rounds of anti-patronage / corruption legislation, often pushed by a coalition of progressives, libertarians and populists, had unintended consequences.https://www.brookings.edu/book/political-realism/ …Show this thread -
One of the main unintended consequences of past anti-corruption and campaign finance reform has been the diminution of political parties in the American system. In the past, the machinery of political parties would have prevented someone like Trump from rising through the ranks.
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So while I'm not rejecting potential anti-corruption reforms, I think they have to be considered carefully. My priority would be to rejuvenate political parties. That may counter-intuitively require rolling back past campaign finance and anti-patronage reforms.
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The right framework IMO is not one that seeks to eliminate graft and patronage but tries to manage it in more productive and less centralized ways.
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In particular, centralizing property tax valuation and cracking down on depreciation rules is somewhere between an over-reaction and non-sequitur, and full of potential unintended side effects. Interesting idea, but I can't begin to wrap my mind around the ways this could mess uppic.twitter.com/7hvpiQKbn1
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I know this idea about patronage strengthening parties being actually good is trendy at the moment but is it true historically? Strong political parties produced some spectacularly terrible presidents as well, and some of the best presidents came out of deeply divided parties.
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The public elected a man who claimed paying his taxes would have been wasteful. If private tax paying is rejected, then how can you reject public office for private gain?
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