Yea was a pretty good article with the tension of competitive authoritarian and a general conservative project of smaller government and bureaucracy. While also holding the lawbreaking or bending to get there. Didn't mention staffing wrt loyalty but maybe that is captured in lawsuits or considered small potatoes, didn't have the recent prosecutions and firing in Virginia dynamic then?
I kept thinking of the recent single district gerrymandering talk while reading it too.
btw how well do you think that article in American Affairs has aged? I read it and was encouraged but noticed they wrote it back in June.
Yea was a pretty good article with the tension of competitive authoritarian and a general conservative project of smaller government and bureaucracy. While also holding the lawbreaking or bending to get there. Didn't mention staffing wrt loyalty but maybe that is captured in lawsuits or considered small potatoes, didn't have the recent prosecutions and firing in Virginia dynamic then?
I kept thinking of the recent single district gerrymandering talk while reading it too.
Agreed. While I found it generally convincing, a lot has happened since it was written like domestic military deployments, targeted prosecutions, etc
Thank you for curating those articles, and for presenting such a closely-argued and cogent analysis. I am reading the articles from 18 and 19 now.
thank you for this excellent write-up.
Mr. Prezbo in The Wire explains who's "winning" the shutdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qFZLG-CZdY