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Steven White

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If most of the academics really are leaving, the probability that I fully covert this to a chess account is approaching 1

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

My Twitter timeline made me think that everyone is social distancing, but then I went for a walk around my neighborhood and realized it's just that I follow a bunch of rule-following nerds.

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Steven White

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3 years

Republican politicians started strategically calling all accurate historical information about racial inequality "critical race theory" and a lot of media outlets are just uncritically running with the phrase now

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

In NC, police are pepper-spraying voters. In TX, Republicans want to throw out ballots in Democratic cities. In PA, the president is saying the courts might disenfranchise enough voters for him to win. I'm not sure what kind of regime this is, but it's not a healthy democracy.

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Steven White

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5 years

"Why do old people keep getting scammed by phone calls?" wonders a generation that just sent a headshot and access to the data stored on their iPhones to a company they've never heard of before

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Steven White

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3 years

A lot of people seem to have developed this idea that Jim Crow era voting restrictions were a series of laws explicitly saying "Black people can't vote," but they very specifically (and strategically) were *not* that (and indeed were much closer to what Georgia is doing now)

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oh look, the Georgia voting law appears to be a set of facially neutral reforms that curtail voting in the most populous and Democratic areas in the state, which also happen to have the largest black populations.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

When this country was founded, the Supreme Court had 6 members and the filibuster didn't exist yet

Mitt Romney

@MittRomney

3 years

My Democrat friends decry the last president for weakening our institutions with his words and behavior but they now cheer the effort to pack the Supreme Court and end the Senate filibuster, which would forever diminish institutions at our Republic’s foundation.

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Steven White

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3 years

If 35 Senators from a single party are able to block a bill supported by a bipartisan group of 54 Senators, at the very least perhaps we can stop pretending that the filibuster incentivizes bipartisanship and cooperation

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

"It's unconstitutional to prevent COVID from spreading" is a nice preview of the "it's unconstitutional to prevent climate change from getting worse" rulings we'll be seeing in the years to come, absent some major change to the Supreme Court.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

6 years

It really is remarkable how undemocratic American political institutions are. Republicans have only won the popular vote once since the 1988 presidential election and now they'll control the Supreme Court for a generation

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

One problem with media coverage of Trump voters is they disproportionately highlight the true believers instead of the people who barely pay attention to politics but decided to vote for Trump for reasons that are probably not very coherently ideological.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

20 years ago, being a moderate in the Republican Party meant being mildly pro-choice or being somewhat more open to social spending or something like that. Now it means thinking Democrats are allowed to win elections.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

I just talked to my grandparents and I didn't actually get the sense they want to die to save capitalism.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

My favorite thing about the 1776 Commission is how it declares there is a single great patriotic history that we all must adhere to but then accuses its *critics* of engaging in forced reeducation

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

2 years

This is how swing voters view the presidency

Colin McAuliffe

@ColinJMcAuliffe

2 years

netflix removed a bunch of my little pony episodes and my daughters have decided that I, personally, am responsible for this

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

It's striking that Republicans have held the White House twice this century and, both times, the inhabitant left office unpopular and disgraced.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

I feel like maybe Stanford should worry more about the reputational consequences of its relationship with the Hoover Institution if its fellows are telling people to rise up against COVID restrictions in a state where there's already been a plot to kidnap the governor?

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

I'm reading Federalist 68 to see how it justifies the way we elect the president and it's one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

11 days

The idea that you become a terrorist by reading Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press: 2018) is one of the funniest and dumbest things I’ve ever come across

NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry

@NYPDDaughtry

11 days

Pencils, books, laptops, those are the tools of students and what you expect to find on a college campus. But here’s what the NYPD found in Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after we were able to arrest the protestors and agitators for commandeering and barricading themselves…

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

6 years

Political scientists are generally not massive Fox News fans, but in our efforts to come across as relatively unbiased, I actually think we downplay the extent to which it is a force for the absolute worst impulses of racism, illiberalism, and extremism in American society.

Josh Marshall

@joshtpm

6 years

Straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Just moments ago, Lou Dobbs guest Chris Farrell (head of Judicial Watch) says Caravan is being funded/directed by the "Soros-occupied State Department".

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

At risk of being unduly cynical, it appears a lot of large companies spent the last 4 years getting what they wanted and are now repositioning themselves in pursuit of influence under a new administration.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

Please enjoy my new op-ed, "This person might destroy the rights of the most marginalized, but we were on a panel together once and I think she's kind of swell."

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

If Twitter had existed in the 1980s, it's amazing to think how many prominent people would have spent their entire day making fun of anti-apartheid activists

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

The scene: A burned down house Democrats: Let's build a new house Republicans: Let's watch as all the neighboring houses burn The New York Times: Congress still refuses to deal with the burned down house

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

Considering what just came out about the person who was bribed to invent mail fraud in PA, creating financial incentives for people to lie and say there was voter fraud seems bad.

Chuck Lindell

@chucklindell

4 years

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, one of the biggest Trump boosters in Texas, says he'll pay up $1 million to encourage and reward those who report voter fraud. If info leads to arrest/ conviction for voter fraud. expect at least $25,000, he says.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

If Andrew Sullivan ordered a dozen donuts and only got 11, he'd blame it on "critical race theory"

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

In retrospect, perhaps this country shouldn't have spent decades normalizing right-wing militias

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@asherprice

3 years

Allen West, head of Texas GOP, poses with Texas militia members outside the Texas Capitol on opening day of the #txlege .

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

"Critical race theory" is a real thing, of course, but the political strategy here is concept stretching and, well, it appears to be working.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

To clarify this last point a bit: I'm an academic who studies racism in American political history, but I don't think people doing critical race theory work would see me as a critical race theorist. But a lot of these laws would ban even extremely obviously discussions of racism.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

5 years

Please enjoy my forthcoming Atlantic article, "I have a single theoretical framework and I am willing to apply it to literally any case"

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

One thing I know from American history is that the Republican Party would never admit a bunch of new states just for the sake of partisan advantage.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

2 years

American gun ownership in comparative perspective is just off the charts extreme. How do you even go back from this?

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

This might just motivate anti-Trump voters to turn out at even higher levels. But I think it's important to note that even if Trump loses, it doesn't mean this stuff didn't matter. It's immensely harmful for the country even if it doesn't "work" as planned.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

1 year

I understand why people find Nate Silver annoying on Twitter, but election poll analysis in media coverage was *so much worse* before FiveThirtyEight

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

In 2006, the Voting Rights Act was reauthorized in the Senate by a 98-0 vote. It says a lot about American politics in 2021 that Manchin and Murkowski are now basically begging just 9 Republicans to join them.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

Another funny thing about the 1776 Commission is how right-wing populists are obsessed with undermining academic work as elitist, but the second an academic agrees with them they're like "this person is a Scholar and their expertise gives them Credibility that cannot be denied"

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

This isn't going to work, but the fact that there is a concerted effort by Republicans to overturn the election just because Trump didn't win bodes very poorly for the future of American democracy (which needs both of its main parties to value basic things like election results).

Ben Jacobs

@Bencjacobs

3 years

Trump's Nevada electors, including the chair of the Nevada Republican Party, are suing to either have Trump declared the winner of Nevada or to have the presidential election in the state annulled entirely.

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Steven White

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5 years

Being a Senator is a great job because it allows you to make a career pandering to anti-urban sentiment while enjoying all the benefits of living in a major urban area

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

It's hard to make white people even a little less racist, but union membership is one of the things that's most likely to actually do it. Happy Labor Day!

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

5 years

So many thoughts about underqualified rich white kids in college, yet so many years until tenure.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

The fact that it incentives people to think about their fellow Americans like this is a damning indictment of the Electoral College in itself

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

2 years

The filibuster didn't come about as the result of the deliberation of great minds. It was a historical accident stemming from unanticipated consequences of an 1806 rule change. And like so many things in US politics, if it didn't already exist no one would think it's a good idea.

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Steven White

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4 years

If you're wondering why I blocked you, it's because you responded to this by saying America is a republic not a democracy as though you think it's possible I've never considered that argument before.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

If we judge the Electoral College by arguments made on its behalf in the Federalist Papers, there's just no serious case to be made that it's working.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

Wow I can't believe the Green New Deal caused me to fall behind in my teaching prep

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

Hot tip for grad students: don't purchase hundreds of business cards

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

A situation where a president remains in office but the military ignores him is far more dangerous for constitutional principles than impeachment. Impeachment is the constitutional tool designed to remedy this. Crossing your fingers & hoping people ignore him is far more radical!

Manu Raju

@mkraju

3 years

After speaking with Mark Milley today, Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her caucus that she has gotten assurances there are safeguards in place in the event President Trump wants to launch a nuclear weapon, sources on the call told @DanaBashCNN and me

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Steven White

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Can't believe college students would let their political views be shaped by social pressure, unlike other people who share the same general views as their peer group but arrived there entirely coincidentally via critical self-reflection

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

Political science research on parties often highlights the benefits of competitive elections. But what we're seeing in NC, PA, TX, and other American states is that these benefits disappear when one party responds to competitiveness by trying to disenfranchise their opponents.

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Steven White

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3 years

Goldwater famously justified the GOP's embrace of the white southern electorate by saying you had to go "hunting where the ducks are," and it appears a lot of state Republican parties now think the ducks are located on racist YouTube accounts and QAnon message boards

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

American conservatism has finally completed its transition from "individual responsibility" to "I will sue you if I don't get my way"

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

It's interesting to see National Review writers use Jim Crow as an argument against majoritarian democracy since the magazine's original position was that Jim Crow is good specifically because it was a safeguard against majoritarian democracy

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

Clay Higgins—who managed a car dealership and then became an abusive police officer before entering politics—helpfully illustrates the difficulty of imagining a post-Trumpist Republican Party

Rep. Clay Higgins

@RepClayHiggins

4 years

My wife has the gift of premonition. Last night she dreamed that Federal squads were in our home seizing guns, knives, “unauthorized foods” and stored water. They said we had been “reported”. Becca awoke crying. What happened to our freedom? She asked. What indeed.

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Steven White

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2 years

The last time the Republican Party actually bothered to write a platform (2016), they were very clear about planning to get both Roe and Obergefell overturned. The idea that this was liberal fear-mongering was always undermined by literal public statements by the Republican Party

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

I'd just like to point out that there are actually existing democracies where everyone is automatically registered to vote. Registration is just another hurdle that makes it harder for some people to vote than others.

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Steven White

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4 years

You can tell they're worried about losing Texas by how hard they're trying to disenfranchise voters

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

You're not going to change the mind of some QAnon-adjacent guy with a MAGA hat, but plenty of Trump voters are much less ideologically constrained than that. Many voters don't like thinking about politics on any sort of regular basis.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

I do think there's an interesting bifurcation among social science PhDs between people who feel extremely confident their work is correct and people who, the longer they study something, feel like it's not even possible to really know anything definitively.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

Even the Guardian is doing it:

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

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Hamilton's argument for the Electoral College is basically that it prevents corruption and foreign interference and guarantees we won't elect unqualified populists.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

The American founders agreed with each other on every issue. That's why they formed groups with names like the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists: because they were in complete agreement.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

6 years

It doesn't bode well for America that the most illiberal elements of our political elite can shape media coverage just by rambling on about racist conspiracy theories.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

5 years

It’s too bad the U.S. Constitution provides no mechanism for dealing with these problems

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

"Oh the coup thing didn't work out and Democrats took back the Senate? *nervous laugh* Well, the National Association of Manufacturing has always said it placed its commitment to democratic principles above profit and we look forward to working with the Biden administration..."

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

It's honestly hard to imagine worse elite leadership on COVID-19 than what the U.S. Republican Party has offered. Almost certainly more people have died because of this than how many would have died otherwise.

Daniella Diaz

@DaniellaMicaela

4 years

. @VP is currently delivering remarks at a Make America Great Again rally in Carter Lake, Iowa. The event is indoors and most of the audience isn’t wearing face masks. There are more than 200 people here.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

6 years

Having spent 4 years on the academic job market before finally getting a tenure-track offer at a great place, my advice for succeeding on the job market is: 🤷‍♂️

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

People who defend the Electoral College against the supposed tyranny of a national popular vote should make at least a slight effort to grapple with how the Electoral College is enabling all of Trump's efforts at destroying American democracy

b-boy bouiebaisse

@jbouie

3 years

worth saying again that if the winner of the white house was simply the guy with the most votes, this all would have been over on november 3

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

It's been remarkable to watch Republicans, even "moderates," realize they don't have to pretend they support voting rights anymore in the post-Shelby era. As recently as 2006, the Voting Rights Act renewal passed the Senate 98-0 and was signed by George W. Bush.

Sahil Kapur

@sahilkapur

3 years

The Senate vote on the Freedom To Vote Act breaks 50-50 along party lines. All Democrats are on board, all Republicans vote to filibuster. @SenSchumer changed his vote to "no" at the end to preserve his procedural option to bring up the bill again. Official tally: 49-51

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Steven White

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3 years

If America's electoral rules technically allow something bad to happen, it will eventually happen.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

2 years

@rmc031 From a normative theory standpoint, it seems easier to make the opposite argument: a white person committed to racial justice is obligated to talk to their racist family members specifically because conversations with someone you know is one of the likeliest ways to change minds

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

11 months

It's funny to watch "Democrats want you to do very countercultural things" become "Democrats want you to do very normie things" as growing segments of the right go down some weird anti-LGBT rabbit hole of extreme online-ness

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If they could the Biden Administration would force every American to drink Bud light and shop at Target.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

One of the greatest tricks the conservative movement ever pulled was convincing people that critical race theory is the most powerful force in academia, when actually it's like...business schools and scientists that do research for the defense industry.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

If you ever worry that you're not qualified to run for public office, just know that you are definitely more qualified than many people who currently hold public office

Billy Corben

@BillyCorben

4 years

Okeechobee County Commissioner Bryant Culpepper at emergency meeting says you can kill coronavirus by holding a blow dryer up to your nose after he saw it on “reliable source” OANN, warns ��there’s a lot of baloney out there on social media” #BecauseFlorida

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

7 years

W. E. B. Du Bois' "note to the reader" in Black Reconstruction remains all too relevant for contemporary social science:

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

The best argument for impeachment is not to punish past bad behavior, but to prevent the future bad behavior we know is inevitable. There's nothing surprising about Trump's actions. Congress simply refused to intervene to stop him from doing it again and again.

Timothy Ryan

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Donald Trump calling and pressuring a low-level election official in Michigan to vote his way is basically a repeat of the impeachable offense he was already impeached for.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

Call me alarmist, but it sure seems like the most powerful Republican politicians in the country are giving credibility to Trump's dangerous voter fraud" conspiracy theories, even if a few moderates (and people no longer holding elected office) are saying otherwise.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

Trump thinks Americans want bravado in the face of crisis. But one lesson from the FDR presidency is Americans actually want a president who will acknowledge the severity of the crisis, while managing to reassure us that the government is competent enough to handle it.

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Steven White

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5 years

There's this popular notion that Democrats are disrespectful to rural voters, yet no prominent Democrat ever talks about rural areas the way that the president talks about urban areas.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

5 years

The idea that people with socially liberal but economically conservative views are somehow underrepresented in American politics is not at all supported by actual public opinion data

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

2 years

The more basic flaw in the voter ID debate is that it's entirely premised on the idea that there's some meaningful level of fraud in our elections, which is simply a giant lie perpetuated by people who are clearly *trying* to restrict the electorate.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

2 years

In a new article, @_alfang and I show that learning about the historical roots of racial inequality can increase belief in the existence of inequality as well as structural attributions for it. We also find evidence that it can reduce racial resentment:

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

2 years

Alexander Hamilton defended the executive branch from its critics by specifically noting that presidents, unlike kings, can be punished for wrongdoing:

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

7 years

Rare photograph of the "blood-stained killing fields" of Long Island that Trump is talking about:

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@notstevenwhite

4 years

This is why "go read a history book" isn't necessarily great advice

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top 5 bestselling history books in the country are all written by Fox News hosts who are not historians, by which I mean they paid ghostwriters, who are also not historians

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Steven White

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2 years

There's a lot of media focus on the Squad, but it's pretty notable that Democrats basically never nominate ideologically "extreme" candidates in competitive seats while Republicans constantly do this (and are perhaps starting to pay an electoral price for it)

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

The Republican Party has spent decades perpetuating a racist conspiracy theory about widespread "voter fraud" and what you're seeing now is the inevitable result of those pre-Trump choices.

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@chrislhayes

4 years

The "legally cast ballots" stuff is gross and wrong and poinsonous because it implies some large pool of "illegally cast ballots" which of course do not exist.

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@notstevenwhite

4 years

Wow, the positivity rate at UNC rose from 2.8% to 13.6% in the last week

The Daily Tar Heel

@dailytarheel

4 years

BREAKING: One week into the semester, UNC-Chapel Hill announces that it is transitioning all undergraduate classes to fully online instruction, effective Wednesday. Story to come. Check this thread soon.

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@notstevenwhite

3 years

Just a wholesale rejection of democracy from the White House all the way down to the local level. How do you possibly fix this when there are so many political incentives for Republican politicians to exacerbate it instead?

Jeremy Roebuck

@jeremyrroebuck

3 years

Board of Elections in Montgomery County, PA, where Biden won by 27 points, votes 2-1 to certify results in party line split. Joe Gale dissents. "I believe the US Sup should review the travesty that has happened in Pennsylvania," he says

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Steven White

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Seriously, if you take Republican statehood politics in the late nineteenth century as your guide, D.C. shouldn't be admitted as a state: it should be admitted as two states.

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Steven White

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4 years

It's a complicated argument, but the reason I think nominating Amy Coney Barrett is part of an effort to overturn Roe v. Wade is because the Republican Party's 2016 platform explicitly says that's what they're going to do with judicial nominations:

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

6 years

The American Political Science Association giving Condoleezza Rice an award "in recognition of notable public service" is a striking reminder that no one has suffered any actual long-term reputational consequences for the disaster that was the Iraq War

Seva

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if there's one person that deserves an APSA award, surely it's one of the architects of the Iraq War

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

One of the ways more mainstream Republicans set the stage for Trump was making up and propagating the lie about widespread "voter fraud." Trump has taken it to a new extreme, but it's not like he came up with the idea (and it's always been extremely dangerous for democracy).

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@notstevenwhite

4 years

Remember yesterday when some Democrats got a little optimistic about Biden's early lead in Ohio, but once Trump made his comeback they were just like "oh ok" instead of trying to disenfranchise his voters?

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4 years

It's actually very striking that when the average American thinks of the Supreme Court, they think of outlawing segregation, LGBT marriage rights, and so on. These are *extremely* unrepresentative of the Court's normal political accomplishments.

Jake Anbinder

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Across 250 years of history the median SCOTUS majority opinion is like "it violates the right to contract of nine year olds to prohibit them from mining lead"

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

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The fact that we're even debating whether it's good or bad for citizens to bring guns to polling places—while the president is trying to get people to sign up for his poll-watching "army"— says everything you need to know about the health of American democracy.

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Steven White

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1 year

Some professional news: very happy (and relieved) to say that I've officially been granted tenure

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@notstevenwhite

4 years

Political science article intros: "This article is about social welfare policy during the New Deal." History article intros: "It was a cool day in February and Harold Ickes had just returned from his evening stroll."

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

Perhaps there will be a Notre Dame symposium on how preventing climate change is a violation of religious liberty or something.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

4 years

Wow at first only the people who follow me were exposed to this tweet, but over time it spread and millions of other people came into contact with it. I wonder if there’s a metaphor here.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

It's actually genuinely remarkable that 6 Republican Senators joined Democrats on a major bill. But instead of encouraging that to happen more often, the filibuster just prevents this kind of bipartisanship from even being a possibility.

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

7 years

You can be the party of Lincoln or you can be the party of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, but you can't be both

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