This David Bateman article on "democracy-reinforcing hardball" came out in Comparative Political Studies but here it is ungated (it's important) www.davidalexbateman.net/uploads/1/1/...

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@vanessawilliamson.bsky.social & Ellis Chen have a new piece in the @donmoyn.bsky.social Blog showing that they really don't want the IRS to work (with the exception of sharing your secure IRS data with ICE, which they've been working hard at) donmoynihan.substack.com/p/things-rea...

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I post this picture a lot to point out how the right uses "communism" but @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social The Price of Democracy made me understand this connection so much more clearly. Black civil rights and voting rights meant a fairer tax system which the right later called "communism."

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now that life is more horrifying than my worst nightmares, I vote we make halloween exclusively about pretty flowers and songbirds

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Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...

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