David Karol

Govt & Politics prof, @UofMaryland. Author: Red, Green and Blue & Party Position Change in American Politics. Co-author: The Party Decides.

[David Karol @DKarol]

Happy to announce the publication of “How Does Party Position Change Happen? The case of LGBT Rights in the U.S.” in @PRQjournal !🧵
https://t.co/KDnFXMymjY
Ungated version: https://t.co/C0d5GOAX9J

[David Karol @DKarol]

@ChadPergram "We needed the numbers"? She hasn't voted since July! How was it helping anyone except her staff (and maybe her family using her salary to pay for care?) to keep her in office? And this is a statement, not a quote, which is telling.

[David Karol @DKarol]

Once prose stylists are furloughed, cliche is the inevitable result.

[Kathryn Watson @kathrynw5]

Things a shutdown can do other than loom:

Approach
Advance
Close in
Hang
Hover
Near
Threaten

[David Karol @DKarol]

@Tyler_A_Harper @JrWannamaker There actually WERE "cheap fakes" though, whatever you think of Biden's condition. NY Post cropped the parachutist Biden greeted out of the G7 photo to make it look like he wandered aimlessly into an empty field. They just had to exaggerate, but you've decided to ignore that.

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

Much reporting on the Dems' Oversight race boils it down to a narrative with AOC as protagonist, Nancy Pelosi as antagonist, and Gerry Connolly reduced to age/health if mentioned at all. Basically none of that is right in my personal opinion. We'll soon know how it shakes out...

[Eric Columbus @EricColumbus]

The last time a Wray was so terrified of a vicious brute who became famous via Manhattan skyscrapers

[Alan Cole @AlanMCole]

The politics of SALT can be such that:
- Most Republicans don't want the deduction back and instead want something else
- Most Democrats don't want the deduction back and instead want something else

And yet:
- Under certain circumstances, the pro- SALT minority is empowered.

[David Karol @DKarol]

@fsholars Yeah, re "most, "some" is quite vague, but I can only do so much here.

[David Karol @DKarol]

Or maybe, just maybe, incumbent parties tend to lose in inflationary environments.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

Despite all the right's anti-humanities rhetoric, the GOP has outflanked the Democrats because their strategies are humanistic – storytelling, grand narratives, friends and enemies – while the Dems' approach is social scientific: stats mongering, focus grouping, poll-obsessed.

[David Karol @DKarol]

@daniel_dsj2110 There are a couple of quotes attributed to Bismarck -not sure of veracity of those- that talk about how lucky the US was- but without the bitterness.

[David Karol @DKarol]

@daniel_dsj2110 Only because I can't see what his source was. He was in the room with de Gaulle and Kosygin? Someone who was told him? But I said it's plausible. it sounds like him and the main point was that it was a hyperbolic statement. I am not saying you invented it.

[David Karol @DKarol]

@Blade0Runner @daniel_dsj2110 We'll never know how many millions died under Mao either, or at the hands of the Japanese, but it was a lot. CdG wasn't talking about China though and made hyperbolic and cartoonish claims re the U.S. He could have just said the US has been more fortunate than many.

[David Karol @DKarol]

@daniel_dsj2110 In the book you linked to I saw it was in a conversation with Kosygin and couldn't see the author's source, but CdG was arrogant and plausible he said it, I agree. The main point is he was making exaggerated claims.

[David Karol @DKarol]

@daniel_dsj2110 Interesting, assuming CdG said it, then he was ignorant of much of American history.

[David Karol @DKarol]

It's nice to see someone admitting he was mistaken rather than just deleting the tweet and hoping few would notice or remember.

[Tobias Schneider @tobiaschneider]

A personal lesson in overcorrecting one's priors!

[David Karol @DKarol]

@rjwile Thanksgiving conversations suggest Gen Z doesn't know Elizabeth Taylor. Biggest star in the world- 2 Oscars, $60 million in today's $ for one movie, tabloid fodder for a long time and noted activist. 99.99% of people are forgotten. When remembered it's usually by a small group.

[David Karol @DKarol]

Post-Gaetz Confimation Poll. Trump's controversial nominees, post-Gaetz withdrawal, could be voted on or receive recess appointments. The ultimate process will be

[David Karol @DKarol]

Post Gaetz Confirmation Poll Part II: Thinking of Trump's remaining cabinet-level or otherwise high-profile nominees, what is likely to happen?

[David Karol @DKarol]

Post Gaetz Confirmation Poll Part II: Thinking of Trump's remaining cabinet-level or otherwise high-profile nominees, what is likely to happen?

[David Karol @DKarol]

Post-Gaetz Confimation Poll. Trump's controversial nominees, post-Gaetz withdrawal, could be voted on or receive recess appointments. The ultimate process will be