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Anti – popularist politics
The current strategy for bringing Democrats back from the brink of annihilation rejects what they need most.
On its surface, popularism is intuitive political advice: do what the voters like and they will support you. But questioning this theory reveals at best some general policy best practice recommendations and at worst vague advice calm down some kind of “do nothing”. It turns out that conservative white voters generally prefer the status quo. Even popular policies, such as the broad consensus on arms security legislation, become less popular if voters perceive them as change current policy…
If the polls accurately reflect reality, the progressive will be consistently deterred by voters who do not support candidates who will campaign for things like a fair immigration system, a significant expansion of the welfare state, bans on assault weapons, cessation of assault weapons. fossil fuels or any other policy that alleviates great suffering. Either forward-thinking candidates can start massively lying to voters about what they will do when they are elected, or Democrats will have to start changing public opinion. Obviously, the latter strategy is preferable.
The real policy here is to form mass coalitions that can demand and obtain concessions. What Democrats need more is Ositai Nwanevu written is movement formation. The best hope for that the decline of society forcing Americans to step down into a permanent anti-social defense column, builds and strengthens organizations that can politically mobilize people (as one big fan of the movement) put it on) fight for someone they don’t know.
Post Crescent (WI):
The wedge is being destroyed by the Cultural War from the Title IX investigation, but the population is trying to continue
Although Kiel boasts a small city that does great things, it has struggled with sensitive gender issues and has seen local school council races become controversial.
Last spring, when masks and racial education policies were discussed, rhetoric during the school board elections became so hot that school district staff wrote a letter to the editor, which was published in the local weekly Tri-County News. in early April under the name “Teachers address ‘inaccuracies.'” It was signed by 70 employees.
Run to school board. This debate is happening everywhere.
(There are many questions about what Grasley was thinking, and it is not clear that he had inside information).
Philip Bumps / WaPo:
What if John Durem has no goods?
Durham’s investigation has become all that Trump and his allies accused of conducting a Russian investigation led by Special Adviser Robert S. Miller III: a long-running fishing expedition that did not actually reveal anything that would significantly help the case. Miller could point to dozens of accusations and extensive research into Russia’s attempts to postpone the 2016 election for two years. Three years after Durham’s, he failed to gain confidence in his central line of attack.
Objective observers have always had reason to be skeptical that Durem will be able to fulfill his mandate to prove that Russia’s investigation was questionable and that Trump was right at all times. Now it seems much less likely.
It is hoped that the gate post movers have retained their shape.
Politico:
“It will be an army”: records reveal GOP plan to run
One of the strategies to be rolled out in Michigan and other changing states is the appointment of survey staff and the creation of a hotline for friendly lawyers.
“As a survey worker, you have many more rights and things you can do to stop something [as] “Matthew Seifride, RNC’s director of election integrity in Michigan, said he stressed the importance of being formally appointed as a polling staff at a meeting with GOP activists in the Wayne County on November 6 last year.” It is one of a series of entries during the GOP meeting from the summer of 2021 to May this year, acquired by POLITICO.
In support of these front workers, “it will be an army,” Seifride promised at the October 5 training session. “We’ll have more lawyers than we’ve ever hired because we’ll be honest, that’s where the fight will be, won’t we?”
Axios:
Blockbuster witnessed the January 6 hearings
Former federal judge and lawyer J. Michael Lutig, who advised former vice president Mike Pence, will testify at a public hearing of the select committee on January 6, Axios said.
Why it matters: The committee, which has so far interviewed witnesses in camera, has revealed little of its plans for the public hearings that will begin next week.
- The desire to portray Luttiga, a judge who is the lion of the conservative legal movement, is in line with what the sources describe as the committee’s strategy to reach the widest possible audience, including conservatives.
This is severe sarcasm, people.
Guardian:
“Theocratic” US abortion bans will violate religious freedom, religious leaders say
The anti-abortion side has monopolized arguments based on religion. But some say their faith supports the right to choose
Reproductive rights are under threat in the United States as states impose stricter restrictions and the Supreme Court is hearing a case that is likely to change the constitutional right to abortion.
However, although religious arguments on this issue are usually linked to the anti-abortion movement, restrictions on abortion may violate the right to religious freedom, religious leaders and legal experts point out. And some organizations are already preparing for possible legal problems with imminent abortion bans.
Religious freedom for people of all faiths is protected under the U.S. constitution, state constitutions, and federal statutes.