Ceaușescu looking confused on the balcony just before Christmas 1990 is one of my key memorable political images. Suspect that Trump is too far gone to notice people booing him, let alone processing … (View Post)

Is it some kind of "it's a cheap threshold to use becuase it can piggyback off the existing tax system" thing? Flip knows why. (Though there was also the More In Common polling that put the… (View Post)

Two grim phenomena. One is that the new authoritarians hate to be contradicted. The other is that they are almost fatally online, so they do long screeds on TwiX. We haven't really seen anything like… (View Post)

The other counterpoint is to look at January to February 2020, when Brexit was Done and COVID was still an unpleasant bit of foreign news. Johnson's government was a blooming shambles then as well. (View Post)

In government, getting what they want. So by definition, there can't be overreach. (View Post)