Josh Zingher

Sara Baker @sarabaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:02 UTC

Me too! I just signed up to write 200 postcards. You can invite friends over to help and make a party out of it.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:04 UTC

The old adage is that you don't burn down the castle if you expect to live in it soon, which has been the Dems approach to SCOTUS. That strategy is entirely contingent on winning in 2024 and getting good luck with a couple of the R judges dying.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:52 UTC

I signed up, too. The institutions aren't going to help. We've gotta bootstrap this thing. It's not fair, but it's the spot we're in. Gotta fight like hell.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:37 UTC

After every single institution has failed to protect us, the job is up to the electorate once again.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:28 UTC

Watching the older generations of Democrats cling to conventions from an Era that is dead and buried is sad.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:20 UTC

The fact that Roberts cut his teeth in the 80s gunning for the VRA under Rehnquist is just incredibly revealing

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:50 UTC

Trump, watching White House Plumbers, furiously screaming at Don Jr. to go find G. Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:44 UTC

It's not clear to me that the Democratic leadership has a plan to deal with the Courts should Biden win. That needs to change.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:42 UTC

G. Gordon Liddy is smiling up from hell.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:41 UTC

I'm sure SCOTUS would've given Barry O complete immunity.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:40 UTC

And yes, winning in November is most straightforward way to dealing with this problem.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:39 UTC

You're right. This isn't a strategy you pursue if you're operating from a position on strength. It is motivated by a fundamental perception of weakness.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:31 UTC

Is one of them the president? If so, i have great news.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:39 UTC

Unlike anybody under 50, most of the Democratic leadership has memories of a time when the Court was not explicitly hostile to democracy, which turns out has given them a PRETTY BIG blind spot.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:29 UTC

The Constitution's big weakness is that political parties coordinate across branches of government. SCOTUS can pretend that impeachment is a political mechanism to hold presidents accountable even when the actual politics make this impossible.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:22 UTC

that was my first reaction to this too. Leopards, faces, etc.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:09 UTC

SCOTUS making it known that it will rubber stamp anything Trump does during a second term

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 19:22 UTC

He cut his own oppo abortion ad.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 17:03 UTC

The immediate retreat to doomerism is not a good look and we need to push back against those impulses at all costs.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 16:59 UTC

The immediate retreat to doomerism is something i'll never understand.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:45 UTC

Seems like this is a recipe to overwhelm the courts with every single regulatory issue imaginable and puts a ton of onus on plaintiffs to fight on every front imaginable

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:40 UTC

I also wonder if federal agencies will ignore a lot of this.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:20 UTC

Buckle up, @sgadarian.bsky.social

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:19 UTC

Trump got Covid October 2nd, 2020.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:18 UTC

The Comey Letter went to Congress on October 28th, 2016.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:17 UTC

To keep things in perspective, the Access Hollywood tape dropped October 7th, 2016.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:07 UTC

The mainstream media coverage across multiple places has largely been "Biden was halting, Trump was lying," which fits with the broader coverage so far. It'll be interesting to see what happens.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:05 UTC

I'm sure the Party would coordinate around MY preferred candidate.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 17:13 UTC

He's such a grifter and part of the growing segment of the Online Left that has developed an aversion to reality much like the Online Right.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 20:17 UTC

you're probably right, but I'm holding out hope that most major reforms seem impossible until they happen suddenly and unexpectedly

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 20:15 UTC

By my calculation, the Electoral College has the least amount of partisan bias of the three federal electoral systems! Which is saying something, because the Electoral College is very biased!

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

Not exactly what you're after, but this series from Pew was great www.pewresearch.org/religion/201...

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 14:47 UTC

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Imagine being a straight White Christian man with this type of victimization complex.

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