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The Long Disjunction Is Still Coming

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Trump's upset win, predicated on a Republican Party dedicated to a shrinking demographic base after Republican elites made hollow gestures at making the party more inclusive after losing in 2012, led to some optimistic predictions that we were on the precipice of a major realignment in...
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Republican Voter Suppression

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I am teaching a course on Protest and Resistance in America this semester, as I did last fall. Our first book this year is Carol Anderson's One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy. And while I am very not supportive of arguments...
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Votaries of reaction

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Neil Gorsuch has a book coming out so he's doing the interview rounds. This one with CNN is worth checking out as an example of how reactionary propaganda regarding "the rule of law" gets disseminated into the wider culture. The reactionary line on the federal courts...
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