I've long argued for Trump viability; by exposing R elite-base gap. My one trick: read empirical academic research.https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/702601267923783682 …
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For a long time, the social science puzzle was how the parties manage to hold their base (while betraying them economically) for so long.
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"The Party Decides" (a good book!) is a study of how the elites learned to re-perpetuate their power, after 70s reforms threatened it.
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@zeynep@BrendanNyhan Or maybe party leaders only seem to have influence because they reflected the voters, and it was the voters all along. -
@SeanTrende@BrendanNyhan Polling and empirical work doesn't rally support that. It was a coalition. Tax cuts for rich never that popular. - Show replies
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