Daniel Schlozman

Tired: constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
Wired: constitutional amendment to overturn Chadha.

This is an unjust, illegal war. It violates our treaties and our laws. Presidential impunity must end.

William E. Connolly Obituary February 25, 2026 - Eclipse Funeral Care View William E. Connolly's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

Bill Connolly died yesterday and he was one of the good ones. It kills me that he was taken while our politics are like this. He deserved to outlive the bastards. I guess we’ll have to take it from here. But let me say: for depth of understanding, empathy & moral clarity, this man had few rivals /1

Yes! A button that says the System of 1896 was a real thing.

In today’s mail, a button from Harry Daugherty of Teapot Done infamy.

A few Jesse Jackson buttons from my collection. A sometimes maddening but genuinely transformational figure who understood better than his adversaries what it would mean to transcend what he called "the long dark night of reaction."

Three not-a-comparativist-either hypotheses:
1a. PARTY: The Liberal Party feels free to move in ways that the post-Corbyn Labour Party is constrained.
2. BIO: Central banker is better preparation than public prosecutor for this.
3. SEQUENCE: Take power after Trump II and the task is crystal-clear.

You don't think a book review can be must-read for people just trying to make political change? This one is. @daschloz.bsky.social spells out the vexed underlying dilemma of democratic (& Democratic) politics in a world where increasingly "the choirs & brass bands reach only into the educated base."

The Left Has a Hyperpolitics Problem While the left is often able to excite large numbers to protest, it fails to harness that energy to build lasting political power.

I reviewed Anton Jäger’s new book, Hyperpolitics, which I enjoyed. Lots to chew on in a small yellow volume. newrepublic.com/article/2058...

Yesterday a friend was asking about what might happen as AI makes whole categories of once-skilled workers obsolete at a time of great-power tension. Time, once again, to read EP Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class.

Playing the Grinch at America’s 250th Birthday Party How do we celebrate America's 250th anniversary as ICE and the Border Patrol threaten and abuse ordinary Americans?

Playing the grinch at the 250th.

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When Democrats Won the Heartland

I blurbed this book last week, and in some ways it covers a lot of this ground already, but in others it suggests an opening for a more broadly comparative perspective. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

I do. The question, even if not framed that baldly, would be some version of "How did we get from HHH/McCarthy/Mondale to George Floyd/Renee Good/Alex Pretti?" It would also begin to get at a version of liberalism that's the same and different from the ideal type in Mastery and Drift.

You should still write this book eventually! A more APD-ish way to do it would be a Twin Cities-Milwaukee (or MN-WI) comparison.

It's really hard to appreciate the Epstein emails as elite Mad Libs until you start searching. This is Epstein, Ken Starr, and Henry Rosovsky.

Looking up my hyper-political friends' voter histories was a good way to learn that lesson.

If we still have intellectual historians in a few generations, this list will be very helpful to guide them to the overhyped minds of the 2020s. PS: Derek Thompson should be embarrassed to be on this list.

Trump and Rutte cannot make a deal without Greenland at the table We are not rejecting co-operation — we are rejecting being spoken for

Immerwahr reaches Greenland. "The experience of US territories — Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa — is a cautionary tale: economic dependence, democratic deficit and structural impoverishment. Every US territory is poorer, per capita, than Greenland."

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I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

"The Stephen Millers of the country are fighting a cultural war that they have already lost. But what continues to hang in the balance is the amount of destruction that they can inflict on the world nonetheless, and what type of country will be present on the other side."

By saying that territorial expansion is in our blood, Schmitt is quite literally articulating a "blood and soil" imperialism.

I am struck by how little the MAGAites have thought through the acquisition of Greenland. Would it become a permanent unincorporated territory like Puerto Rico? A new state? Would we recognize Indigenous rights and negotiate treaties with the Inuit peoples there? What would the language policy be?

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

That's good! Bring back the Tenure in Office Act. Point is to restrain the presidency.

Various fans of Biden-era executive action have been foaming at the mouth for a Left Caesarism in 2029. That view is wrong. Time to cut back the claims of presidential power, even if it hamstrings the next Democratic president.

Twelve against empire; the anti-imperialists, 1898-1900 : Beisner, Robert L : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive xvi, 310 pages 22 cm

Today's out-of-print book recommendation is Robert Beisner, Twelve against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900, which is a fascinating look at the losers--mostly but not all sympathetic--who protested when history moved in a different direction. archive.org/details/isbn...

Well Elliot Abrams IS an expert on human rights under Latin American dictators

Some buttons from the new mayor.

A nice thing that happened in this horrible year was I finally hired someone to start digitizing my vast collection of political buttons. Progress has been slow, but eventually I'll put them on a website. Here's a few of them.