Scott of course is right about the Green Lantern theory of domestic politics. There's just no way Obama is going to will Ben Nelson or Olympia Snowe into supporting a given policy. Giving speeches aren't going to do anything to change that, and in fact...
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To follow up on Ezra's point about Megan McArdle's claim that impeachment proceedings would "mean[] not having any achievements to show the electorate next year," it's always striking to me.
( . . . for anyone who thought this post title was clever, it was -- when Scott first used it back in November . . . My bad!)The laughing-stock.
A little over two weeks after the humiliating conclusion of the seige at Stalingrad, Reich Minister for Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels delivered his famous Sportpalastrede address in Berlin. Summoning the German people to commit themselves to total war, Goebbels' speech was a tremendous hit...
As you would expect, it takes Glenn Reynolds to really push the Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics to sublime heights of lunacy. Does the deteriorating situation in Iraq prove, say,.
John Ganz has an excellent post about the debate surrounding the new book edited by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, a protege of leading anti-anti-Trumper Sam Moyn. I agree there's a lot of.
The great historian of the rise of the contemporary Republican party, Rick Perlstein, has started a newsletter via The American Prospect. The first installment, which you should read in full, makes the following points. (1) The Republican party is an authoritarian ethno-nationalist cult of personality....
Since "Joe Manchin holds all the cards and he's a corrupt reactionary" is the correct but not life-affirming conclusion to draw from the apparent failure of BBBA, the nostalgic Green.
We talk a lot about Murc's Law on this blog -- the media-driven idea that only Democrats have agency, while Republican behavior is treated as some sort of law of thermodynamics, as opposed to a matter of choice. We're also fond of the Green Lantern...
It is possible to write a perfectly reasonable argument that people on the left of the Democratic Party should prefer Bernie to Warren. But nobody who writes for the most.
As you know, one of Paul Ryan's central goals is to take away the health insurance of tens of millions of people to help fund massive upper-class tax cuts. How.