EJ Fagan

Political scientist, @thisisuic. Author of The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics. Also Yankees baseball.

[EJ Fagan @ejfagan]

The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics, is officially published today!

The book tells the story of how partisan think tanks have impacted modern policy debates. Here's why you should consider it 1/ 🧵
https://t.co/Zii0ZuGs32

[Cambridge University Press - Politics @CUP_PoliSci]

New to @APSA_Preprints -

The pernicious impact of partisan think tanks on policy debates - https://t.co/YWNDEcD6bi

- @ejfagan

#preprint

[EJ Fagan @ejfagan]

@Max_Fisher Steel tariffs are less than a month away!

[EJ Fagan @ejfagan]

We just spent an entire election cycle arguing about inflation. And he wants to enact the largest tax cut in American history on top of it all.

[Brew Markets @brewmarkets]

JUST IN: President Trump says he will "demand that interest rates drop immediately."

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

What a beautiful thing for @marcorubio to have done and what a beautiful thing for @SenDuckworth to have shared it. Wow ❤️🇺🇸❤️

[Matt Grossmann @MattGrossmann]

Each congress, the majority party begins with large policy ambitions. They tend to get nothing on half of their largest priorities, compromise away major components of initial aims on what they are able to pass, & steamroll opposition to achieve all they want on only 1 or 2 items

[Samuel Hammond 🦉 @hamandcheese]

Open sourcing public datasets is one of the best, low-cost ways to advance the social sciences. Under the status quo, a few well-connected academics get privileged access to admin data to write blockbuster papers that are then hard to impossible to independently replicate.

[Brian Flood @bmf_comms]

“These economic conditions will be different in four years. The candidates will be different. I see no reason to believe that this is the start of a trend,” @uicpols @ejfagan tells @wttw https://t.co/jqAovmzmH3 @UICLAS

[EJ Fagan @ejfagan]

Hacks > groups.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Dems should resist any group or special interest that pressures them to take positions opposed by the electoral majority essential to win, whether that’s big corporations, rich donors, nonprofits, whoever.

This isn’t about blaming specific groups for defeat - it’s about what’s required to win.

[J. Miles Coleman @JMilesColeman]

CRYSTAL BALL: My look today at where Senate Dem candidates ran better, or worse than, Harris.

https://t.co/gzA5TCrC5c

[EJ Fagan @ejfagan]

Reporters should interpret these comments as, "House Republican advocates for eliminating Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and a standing army."

It's absurd and misleading that we let politicians get away with advocating for massive spending cuts in the abstract.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

For most of our country’s history

the federal government was funded by tariffs, there was no income tax, the budget was (mostly) balanced, and federal spending was less than 10% of GDP.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

This is literally the opposite of what happened!

Shift vs. 2020 among:
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Non-white non-college men: Trump +21 (!)
White non-college men: Trump +9
Non-white college men: Trump +9
White college men: Harris +2 (!)

https://t.co/lI3N5udPGI

[Brendan Duke @Brendan_Duke]

I love a good @CenterOnBudget shoutout--the organization knows exactly what it wants to do and how to do it...and does a damn good job achieving it.

https://t.co/xGJYyUhpWZ

[Bryan Anderson @BryanRAnderson]

JUST IN: NC Supreme Court candidate Allison Riggs has just netted 2,882 votes in Wake County. She currently trails by 2,753 votes. If this holds and is official, Riggs will overtake Griffin by 129 votes, with six counties still yet to report any provisionals. #ncpol

[EJ Fagan @ejfagan]

@pamsson It sure feels like we're heading for an Opening Day lineup with four or five league minimum salaries.

[Byron York @ByronYork]

Fox @BretBaier asks Thune about recess appointments for Trump nominees: 'It's an option, but you have to have all Republicans vote to recess.' Says GOP senators who oppose Gaetz nomination would likely also object to recess. Plus, 'you have to have concurrence from the House.'

[EJ Fagan @ejfagan]

@hamandcheese I have some visibility into one particular section of the Democratic group coalition and it's way worse than people might imagine.

[Samuel Hammond 🦉 @hamandcheese]

I once did a panel on "supply side liberalism" and afterward talked to the climate program officer of a major liberal foundation. She lamented how hard it was to fund good supply stuff because of pushback from EJ groups. I was like "But aren't you the one writing the checks??"

[talmon joseph smith @talmonsmith]

Alaska led with some ballot wins for laborers:

-Voters approved minimum wage increases to $15 per hour in Alaska & Missouri

-Alaska voters opted to ban anti-union captive audience meetings

-Voters expanded workers’ ability to earn paid sick leave in Alaska Missouri & Nebraska