Josh Zingher

"We need to bring Theory back to IR"

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"No! Not like that!"

You see, all you naysayers who said they had no plan owe The Big Guy ™️ an apology

Interesting to learn in war the other side gets to shoot back.

yeah, even the term "homemaker" was a class loaded word, meant to distinguish the women who were wealthy enough not to have to do piecework/board lodgers, etc. The single breadwinner has always been more aspirational than reality.

When my grandmother was well into her 80s she got her eyebrows basically tattooed on with permanent makeup. It looked exactly as bizarre as you would expect, but I don't think even that could compete with whatever Ben has going on here.

The 14th Amendment to the constitution is clear--nobody has special rights and constitutional protections apply to everyone. You see why some portions of the right are at war with the Reconstruction amendments.

a pure two party system is vulnerable when someone like Trump can capture one of the parties, because there is nowhere for partisans to go.

This kind off position, that a certain group of people don't have a place in society, is fascist and incompatible with democracy and the constitution. The constitution is fundamentally pluralistic. For all their flag waving, these people are at war with this country's founding documents.

Trump Admin was so gung ho for bombing Iran they never stopped to consider that Israel’s aims are way different than whatever Trump hopes to accomplish. I don’t think Bibi is losing sleep over oil prices!

Yeah, as tribal chieftain is one of the greatest to ever do it. As far as governance goes...

Our addiction to "American political competition is between two good-faith, equivalent opponents" framing has created a humongous blind spot where reality re: Trump cannot penetrate. Remember folks, bubbles are not just financial, and we may see this political bubble popped in a very painful way.

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The student body coughs up more than 50% of the athletics dept's budget at your median division 1 school in the form of fees and other subsidies. Even in the Power 4 conference schools, the academic side rarely sees a dime in money from athletics.

We want to overcomplicate things so badly--our biggest problem is that we're governed by morons--absolute, knuckle dragging morons.

These dipshits gave Israel the opportunity to spark a regional war that they’ve long wanted and instead of reining them in we sprinted face first into the hornets nest.

Ethnonationalist Ideology is a hell of a drug.

Trump Admin was so gung ho for bombing Iran they never stopped to consider that Israel’s aims are way different than whatever Trump hopes to accomplish. I don’t think Bibi is losing sleep over oil prices!

Are Jews in the United States invested in and dependent upon liberal pluralism? Who can say?

This was my thought, too.

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The idea that, like, 1986 was the peak year for American society speaks to the lead poisoning.

Catch 22: The Trump Admin faithfully implemented Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 once they got in office, and there is no way they'd get someone that could 1.) win, and 2.) be willing to implement it w/o Trump. Now, Trump is going to undo all their efforts because he can't help but be himself 1/2

In 2016 primary debate when Rand Paul was complaining Trump was attacking people for their looks "I haven't said a single thing about your looks, and believe me, there is plenty to work with there"

When he was speaking to the widow of Corey Comperatore (dude who died in the assassination attempt) and was like "it was very tough, with all the bullets" i almost died.

In short, you need a big dumb guy to make your goals a reality, but you're also throwing your lot in with a big dumb guy and all that goes with it. The backlash to all this is going to erase all their progress and then some, I'd guess.

Heritage needed a guy like Trump, someone with no interest in public policy or accountability to voters to get project 2025 to work, but Trump is so fatally flawed as a person and president that he inevitably self-sabotages. They could have consolidated authoritarianism but instead we've got wars.

Catch 22: The Trump Admin faithfully implemented Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 once they got in office, and there is no way they'd get someone that could 1.) win, and 2.) be willing to implement it w/o Trump. Now, Trump is going to undo all their efforts because he can't help but be himself 1/2

Honestly, our Iranian adventure is a perfect parable for Trump's governance at home: build nothing and wantonly destroy everything, all the while skimming as much off the top as possible.

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Things are starting to spiral. We managed to go a full four years during Trump 1.0 without a major foreign policy crisis, but no chance we'd dodge that bullet twice in a row. Dems need to have real campaigns everywhere possible because it's impossible to know what things will look like in Nov.