One of the saddest things to read was Steven Levitsky's argument that democratic norms of mutual toleration and institutional forbearance started decaying once the franchise was meaningfully extended to non-white voters after the Civil Rights movement. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071L5C5HG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 … https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1045619560999788544 …
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I think he’s assuming this is an inevitable dynamic, but California’s successful evolution from white-controlled state to a powerful multiracial democracy suggests otherwise
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That’s the hopeful story!
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Yes, that is.. not great.
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You can’t fix what you don’t know is broken. I think we have an opportunity to address this.
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This is a disturbing interpretation of all the constitutional hardball
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Ugh. That’s brutal to read and so depressingly true
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