On topic, the rule is that things mostly don't happen, and when they do happen they're not the things you expect to happen. Also Boris is agile and shameless, don't underestimate his ability to reinv… (View Post)

Even without the gerrymandering you'd only need 40%, a fairly audacious gerrymander could easily get that down to say 28%. I think Britain easily has 28% who would support a right-wing authoritarian,… (View Post)

There would be some irritation from the left on Twitter but Joe Biden's superpower is ignoring irritation from the left, and Twitter. (View Post)

This is really interesting. I wonder if the GOP might not be happy with acting President Pelosi, though. She's a great inside politician but a fairly terrible mainstream communicator, and IIUC they c… (View Post)

He's not the decision-maker. The leader doesn't unilaterally decide who's a racist, they have to follow a procedure, and they have a procedure left over from before. IIUC they'll then create a new pr… (View Post)