“The basic political argument since the French Revolution has been the left saying, “Let’s make things more fair,” and the right saying, “If we do that, it will lead to chaos and threaten your family.””https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/david-shor-cancel-culture-2020-election-theory-polls.html …
“If you get Democrats to embrace Abolish ICE, that won’t get moderate-ish, racist white people to support it; it will just turn them into Republicans”
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“The single biggest way that highly educated people who follow politics closely are different from everyone else is that we have much more ideological coherence in our views.”
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“‘Moderate’ voters don’t have moderate views, just ideologically inconsistent ones”
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“Democrats need to talk about the issues [non-college-educated whites] are with us on [like healthcare], and try really hard not to talk about the issues where we disagree. Which, in practice, means not talking about immigration.”
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“The real inflection point in our polling was the Lafayette Park incident, when Trump used tear gas on innocent people. That’s when support for Biden shot up”
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“Rich people have disproportionate cultural influence. So business does pull the party right. But it does so more through the mechanism of using its cultural power to influence public opinion, not through donations to campaigns.”
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“When broadband reached a given congressional district, ticket-splitting declined and ideological polarization went up” https://www.jstor.org/stable/26379489
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“The Senate was always a really fucked-up anti-majoritarian institution. But it was okay because people in Nebraska used to vote randomly. But now they have the internet, and they know that Democrats are liberal.”
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“This is an incredibly important year. This is our last chance to win a trifecta for a very long time. And if we don’t win the presidency, things could get very dark.”
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