We hear a lot of people on both political poles talking about a "permanent majority" for the left, as if demographic change can override the median voter theorem.
@CostinAlamariu's article on Bolsonaro notes a solid counterexample: https://palladiummag.com/2018/09/29/bolsonaro-and-the-populist-crisis-in-brazil/ …
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Immigration and other franchise expansion has always been a favored tactic in democracy, to the point where the two nearly always coincide in history, but the electoral advantage itself is temporary at best due to the median voter theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_voter_theorem …
10:47 AM - 22 May 2019
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