The fact that it's a counterfactual not a factual tells us something though, doesn't it? There just doesn't seem to be much of a market for free-market conservatism, and empirically, p… (View Post)

Fair play to the lady, she's trying to get a promise out of him and she knows how he responds to praise. Didn't result in anything much and he doesn't keep his promises anyhow but it w… (View Post)

CA is polling Biden 62, Trump 31.3 (538). 2016 was Hillary 61.7, Trump 31.6 (Wikipedia). So Biden's swing in CA is zero. Biden's big swings actually seem to be coming in places where there&… (View Post)

Populist has an actual meaning, and it's not always derogatory. Broadly it means things that sound good to non-experts and are opposed by experts. Often this is a bad: The reason experts support… (View Post)

If they find themselves with a minority on the court and all three branches they'll do it anyway though, no? The problem is that the system is already working a way it wasn't supposed to (p… (View Post)