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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
I'm a big fan of @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/ …
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.
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.
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.
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
When I think of NIMBYism, I often wonder if it is developers money going to politicians that allows some places to build adequate housing even though the median voter is against building.
Cc: @ronanfitz22 interesting example of when "corruption" can be good
I’d seen that earlier. was going to cc you about it but assumed you were sick of listening to my pro corruption nonsense ; ) but yeah, that’s the sort of argument i think makes sense
Politics hasn't worked for 60-70 years. What have politicians solved? It is only sport.
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