First, I don't think it's very useful to go through a list of policies and checking "agree" or "disagree." This isn't how I think about things.
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This dispute reminds me of the punch-up I got into with some libertarians last cycle about Bernie. To credibly rank candidates relative to a normative standard, you need to give weights/priorities to positions and assess their political plausibility.https://www.niskanencenter.org/thinking-through-your-libertarian-vote/ …
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I disagree with my
@NiskanenCenter colleague@hamandcheese that adjusting for primary strategy and taking into account political feasibility amounts to "assuming bad faith." IMO, it amounts to taking the political context of policymaking seriously.https://twitter.com/hamandcheese/status/1218901148335312897 …Prikaži ovu nit -
Avoiding "mood affiliation" in candidate evaluation means grasping that political campaigns are based on marshalling mood affiliation. Mood affiliators get irked when candidates elicit mood affiliation from people that personally drive them nuts. E.g., this seems to bother Tyler:pic.twitter.com/ILkvmvAhw5
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Okay, throat clearing is out of the way. Now, the theme of Warren's campaign is "big structural change," and there's no doubt she's dead serious about this. If you think the status quo structure of American political economy is basically okay,
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If you think the status quo structure is the goose that lays the golden egg, she's a danger. If you love the bigness and market power of big business, think the financial system is a peach, think anti-majoritarian disenfranchisement protects all this good stuff, she's a horror.
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I think America's basic structure is broken. Warren's general diagnosis of the problem--it's a rigged system of anticompetitive rent-seeking enabled by insufficiently democratic and representative political institutions--is broadly similar to my own.
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I think these structural problems are far more important, and a far more urgent danger, than any specific misguided tax policy. And I support (a few details aside) the legislative proposals on corruption, electoral reform, and voting rights that Warren says are her priorities.
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And I believe they ARE her priorities. I've been into her office to chat with policy staff about these subjects, and my sense is that they believe that they can't succeed with other stuff they'd like to do unless they get democracy and anti-corruption reform done first. I agree.
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I think
@ewarren is better on these issues, which are my top priorities by a very wide margin, than any other candidate in the race. If this was all she could manage to get done in office, I'd consider it an immense success of historic importance.Prikaži ovu nit -
This is what I mean by the importance of having clarity about your own issue priorities in evaluating candidates.
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I think banning fracking is a bad idea. I think Democrats should try to restore congressional power, rather than contribute to its erosion through executive orders.
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I've written about why I think Warren's wealth tax proposal would be a mistake, given her own anti-corruption premises.https://thebulwark.com/wealth-taxes-will-not-save-democracy-from-inequality/ …
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I see primary health-care proposals as open bids in political negotiation, and any of the leading Democrats will end up in a similar place, because the feasibility space for reform is constrained, and there's not a lot you can do about it.
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I find the debate over market power, monopoly, and big tech break-ups, etc. legitimately very difficult and confusing, I strongly distrust ideological analysis of market dynamics that don't have clear historical precedents, and I'm divided about it lots of these proposals.
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Like Warren, I worry about the link between political and economic corruption and the breakdown of democratic institutions. In this piece, I argue Trump is a creature of the corrosion of institutions affected by the unchecked rise of the "crooked class"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/opinion/democrats-trump-corruption.html …
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In it, I praise Warren, because I think she grasps the incentives and dynamics of the corruption doom loop better than anyone, in part for reasons
@henryfarrell points to: she started out as a right-leaning public choice and law and economics scholar.https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/12/elizabeth-socialist-understand-capitalism-pro-market-leftist/ …Prikaži ovu nit -
Does that mean I agree with her about banning fracking by executive order or wealth taxes? Of course it doesn't! Are those issue as important as shoring up the basic structure of democracy and the integrity of the rule of law? Not even close.
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