the golden age of america everybody

Wasn't a key part of the pivot-towards-the-center logic that progressive candidates in one place hurt the chances of more centrist Democrats in other parts of the country? At least that argument is dismantled by his own take then.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d ago

Guy who has only seen the 2016 Democratic primary: I'm getting a lot of 2016 Democratic primary vibes from this election. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

And non-far-right accounts that keep engaging with their audience on X ensure that Lowe and the ecosphere around him can fry more people’s brains. It’s not a marketplace of ideas, it’s a conveyor belt to the far right. Just leave X and let the hard core stew in their own radicalism.

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 7d ago

Far-right British politician Rupert Lowe enjoys much greater visibility on X than world leaders including Andy Burnham, Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, underlining the power of the social network’s owner Elon Musk to amplify extreme voices. www.ft.com/content/fe95...

Nice views of Nyborg after my first time at the Annual Meeting of the Danish Political Science Association. It was a pleasure to participate as well as to see firsthand the impressive breadth and depth of Danish political science work!

Eine Welt ohne Janosch, ist eine traurige Welt. Danke, Janosch!

Janosch Tigerente with a Loving Heart

ALT: Janosch Tigerente with a Loving Heart

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Wondering if it needed the full-blown authoritarian assault of Trump II for Democrats to win with unapologetic progressive politics. What if, after 2010-ish, Ds had not bought the Tea Party’s framing of speaking for ordinary Americans, the deficit being the #1 issue, universal healthcare being…

Lol I made one of those too

Apparently, deranged minds also think alike.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2w ago

The clearest sign yet of Trump’s paranoia. 📌 The military deployed surface-to-air missiles around Mar-a-Lago, at the request of the Secret Service, citing a “heightened threat environment.” The man who promised to make America safe again needs missile defenses in his own backyard.

They should include in their lawsuit that a triumphal arch requires winning at least one war, not losing several.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING WaPo: The D.C. government and the state of Virginia just sued to block construction of Trump's planned triumphal arch — calling it a "flagrantly unlawful" project that will forever change the landscape of the nation's capital.

At first I was going to protest, but now I learned that bold conjectures are "a new, daring, and highly risky theoretical proposition that significantly stretches our understanding of the world". I think I can live with that.

Kai Arzheimer@kai-arzheimer.com · 2w ago

What old Karl Popper used to call a bold conjecture: "Social conservatism may then not be the origin of today's radical right – but it looks increasingly like this is its destination". Interesting research by @ckloetzer.bsky.social

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3w ago

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

🔮 #FutureofPopulism 110 #CulturalBacklash theory argues that opposition to progressive politics produced the populist radical right. But in a blog from @electoralstudies.bsky.social research, @ckloetzer.bsky.social of @ecpr-ead.bsky.social says we may need to rethink this logic: tinyurl.com/mra35rsv

🔮 The inevitable social conservatism of the radical right

The theory of cultural backlash argues that opposition to progressive politics has given us the populist radical right. Christian Kloetzer writes that we may have turn this logic on its head. The elec...

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Spannender Beitrag! Das angesprochene Drittel der Arbeiter mit progressiveren Migrationseinstellungen findet sich auch in den GLES-Daten zur Bundestagswahl 2025. Es ist auch etwa so groß wie der Anteil der Arbeiter, die AfD wählt, macht am gesamten Elektorat aber eben nur einen kleinen Teil aus.

Linus Westheuser@lwestheuser.bsky.social · 4w ago

@tabouchadi.bsky.social und ich schlagen einen neuen Blick auf das Verhältnis von Arbeiter:innen und AfD vor. Die Arbeiterklasse ist nicht nach rechts gerückt. Stattdessen wurde ihr rechter Flügel mobilisiert, ihr linker demobilisiert. Für linke Parteien birgt das strategische Potenziale. Mehr hier:

These conditions include submitting lists of farmers’ names, handing over ID cards and phones for inspection, restricting access to the fields, and preventing the Lebanese army and UNIFIL from accompanying residents.

#NeuesausderForschung Neue Paper & Publikaitonen zu: "New" Right Thought, emerging epicenters of autocratization, violations of cordon sanitaires, cultural backlash & cultured meat.

📜 New paper out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social! If you've always found Norris and Inglehart's cultural backlash theory of far-right voting unconvincing, I can confirm your skepticism – at least in the European context. Here, it has both theoretical and empirical flaws. doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

🎉 In the 1,500th blog piece for The Loop, @florabaumgartner.bsky.social looks at how opposition to #SustainableTransport projects is growing 🚗. 🌏️ Distributive and identity grievances familiar from broader #ClimatePolicy act as glue for right-wing parties. 👉 buff.ly/8z0TG0v

My love, my car: inside right-wing transport policy

Opposition to sustainable transport projects is growing, because of distributive and identity grievances familiar from broader climate policy. Flora Baumgartner looks at how transport policies are con...

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If genocidal acts don’t suffice to suspend a treaty that is allegedly based on a human rights clause, then what does? The past three years have shown that, for the EU, the issue is not what abuses are committed, but who commits and who suffers them: europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/what-ha...

What happened to EU sanctions on Israel? (The sequel)

The EU promised to sanction Israeli ministers and partially suspend the EU-Israel trade agreement in September 2025. Neither has happened. Why? Shortly after…

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Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I think that "voters like politicians who stand up to bullies" is an almost simplistic, but non-negligible part of this. European politicians should give pushing back a try – on Trump's tariffs as much as on his murderous foreign policy that also makes us all poorer and unsafer.

Polling Canada@canadianpolling.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Polling Canada Federal Model Update: 🔴 LPC: 232 (+63) 🔵 CPC: 76 (-68) ⚜️ BQ: 20 (-2) 🟠 NDP: 13 (+6) 🟢 GPC: 2 (+1) (Seat Changes With 2025 Federal Election) - September 12, 2026 - Full model article here: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...

🎬🤝 That’s a wrap! Four days of networking, plenary events and intense sessions at #ecprgc26 and #ecprms ⭐️ A huge thank you to our host @wsmip-uj.bsky.social, the local organising team & wonderful student ambassadors @adrianbrona.bsky.social @tomaszpugacewicz.bsky.social @wsmip-uj.bsky.social

Just arrived to #ecprgc26, powered by @bagss-bamberg.bsky.social! Their Joint Doctoral Conference keeps on giving…

Paradoxically, I keep hearing a lot from Ongehoord Nederland, but it’s always stuff like this. This is a new low though. “Niemöller said that Hitler said certain things ‘really well.’ He also said that there are ‘certain things about Hitler’ that he agrees with, apart from the antisemitism.”

Kabinet onderzoekt mogelijkheid ON te weren uit bestel na Hitler-rel

Een besluit over de omstreden omroep komt "heel binnenkort", zei minister Letschert vandaag.

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Lovely group chat the FN has there, they probably found the Young Republicans of NY too politically correct. "'Fucking Arabs, they should be exterminated', reads one message. [...] 'Invitees need to be anti-constitutional.' [...] 'Jews are satan-worshipping animals'."

Le chat shock dei seguaci di Vannacci tra nostalgia di Hitler e insulti antisemiti. La replica del partito

Arabi di mer*a! Dovrebbero essere sterminati!», è uno dei tanti messaggi. Interviene il coordinatore nazionale Massimiliano Simoni

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Israel’s campaign to make southern Lebanon ‘unliveable’ ft.trib.al/O7a4C0Q

Israel’s campaign to make southern Lebanon ‘unliveable’

Israeli forces have systematically destroyed homes, roads, farmland and forests despite ceasefire with Hizbollah

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Funny how the CPC essentially looks like a regionalist party in this projection.

Polling Canada@canadianpolling.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thank you Frank, this is insane

Wow that was quick. So under Trump, the US is not only clearly unwilling to honor Article 5 in case of war, it also shows a total lack of concern for military readiness for such an event. Russia will surely have taken note, but I am less sure about European capitals.

Ein homogen weiße Ethnofestung wäre also laut Sarrazin ein besseres Deutschland. Und er redet so als wäre ein so konstituiertes Deutschland ein ganz normales Land inklusive EU-Mitgliedschaft, und nicht das Resultat eines Projekts das schwer mit den Werten des Grundgesetzes vereinbar ist.

Simon Strick@unddieregel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Besser wenn die ganzen araber nicht hier wären?" "Ja das wärs ja auch" Das steht da. Die interviewerin widerspricht nicht. ES IST RASSISTISCHE PROPAGANDA DIE SAGT "mit diesen fakten muss man umgehen"

I think the far right will move on this issue. Climate change is now undeniable, and it affects heavily those social segments that they claim to defend: the elderly, farmers, manual laborers. It’ll be something like “yes it’s real, but the jet-setting elite caused it and they should pay, not us.”

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'Unmoved' - by the facts.

After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire? As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.

Elon Musk’s tired schtick

Why does the media keep debasing itself for a man who despises them?

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