I'll address the point about these trends worsening. I'd argue that it's not because people have called out and shamed these bad tactics. Again, I encourage you to read the Mann & Ornstein essay … (View Post)

Just going to use this opportunity to highlight the tortured analysis required to reach this conclusion. The size, geographic shape and number of states has nothing to do with the political alignment… (View Post)

This is another case of false equivalency. Both sides do it. But both sides do not do it to the same degree. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/opinion/sunday/the-great-gerrymander-of-2012.html "… (View Post)

It has won elections, and gotten Republicans out of power both in 2018 and right now. So yeah, I'd say it's working. I'd also argue it's only very recently, with the gratuitous excesses of Trump, tha… (View Post)

The governing situation is not deteriorating because of mutual distrust. It's deteriorating because of conservative distrust of all forms of knowledge/expertise that exists outside of their ability t… (View Post)