@wil_da_beast630 Humanities then Soc sciences led the way. Duke STEM c.1990s got tired of intra-Duke class rank harm to their majors and decided to inflate to keep up.
@kittypurrzog Split govt does allow each side to stop the other's bad ideas. Not sure about the sincerity of any specific person at a specific time, but there is a logic to it.
@JoshKraushaar No way do AOC, Abrams, & Co. see the light on this come Wednesday morning. It will be blame on conspiracy and impure platforms, and Abrams will begin her second phantom term.
@Scholars_Stage The big GOP money wants to cap and cut projected Medicare spending, mostly through privatization. Paul Ryan explicitly pushed this pre Speaker. Hillary wouldve defeated Trump if she'd focused on that and the like. Point is, GOP funders don't want the middle health-care solution.
@anglerfish01@Britonomist Only with good faith efforts to contextualize, e.g., others' complicity, the range of alternatives, the actually worse-case scenarios that did not play out, etc. Power-jealous attacks on the powerful do not generally end in good scholarship.
@wil_da_beast630 Yes, their political and financial leadership still wants to defund Medicare and Social Security, in part, under the guise of privatization. Ryan & Co. were transparent about that for several years early 2010s. Matt Yglesias is not wrong about that.
@jkbloodtreasure It was literally a fence(s) made of iron, including barbed wired, literally from the Baltic to the Adriatic. Photos abound. Grassley might be forgetting the land mines and guard towers with guns and orders to shoot to kill.
@SteveStuWill Maybe nonzero element of survivor bias -- today's mean age rhino in wild is lower than a century ago. I don't know rhino horn biology, age of max size attainment, etc.
@razibkhan Every 2-4 years, there is ALWAYS a batch of people who vote R for the first time (not so much the other direction). I do think 2022 is more faster. But conservatism with age seems to be a thing.
@kennymxu The more salient fallacy might be, UNC-Harvard or bust. If someone is born into a harder lot, including their home and school environment, the US offers them extra steps, e.g., community college, and myriad parallel paths to solid professional degrees.
@razibkhan Even German culture wasn't cancelled during the Third Reich, but there was ... questioning, what elements might have contributed to the path to Hitler. But folks kept playing the music and reading the books.