Was a very frustrating CPAC too as cons tried to distinguish themselves from the GOP to the public (with mixed success).

My fav part about first CPAC is Schlafly leading a defense policy panel because she wanted to.

New piece in The Conversation on Kirk and why his vision for education in America is so important for our understanding of the conservative movement.

theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...

I just heard about his work a few weeks ago. Nearing the top of my to-read list.

This is exactly right.

And, not only is this working now, but it has for decades.

My research pulls from correspondence between William F. Buckley, Ronald Reagan, and 20-something activists looking to make an impact. They did – and these acts of personal and strategic leadership are formative.

Smart, I would describe these as is as funky and a little flat. The spice is 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 tho. Looking forward to the results.

I made these a few months ago and I’m tempted to try again with some sort of sub…maybe a meld with NYT’s pb and miso cookies?

Not Vermont but we stop in Hanover for lunch on the way up. Middlebury and Waterbury have some quaint towns. Low population density means good spots are spread out. The main stretch of Burlington is tchotchkes but there’s good beer & food around. Would drive up 93 and back Middlebury and Woodstock.

There’s a stack of boxes at the LOC (if they aren’t removed…) on how Buckley explored building a YAF in SA. Hoping to get to that someday if the manuscript division isn’t converted into a Tatte.

Would be interesting to see how many of those freq attends report carrying in-church too. Concealed carry was a big part of male Christian ID for many in my suburban CA church. Can only imagine it went up in the past 5 yrs.

Congrats!

I think Mettler argues this well in Submerged State. Cons have succeeded in disconnecting the state from American voters (among other things) through neoliberalism for the past few decades. Even the tools at Biden's disposal (child tax credits) hid the state's role and didn't seem to shape cons' pov

I think this is the way to go. I like the variety of an algorithm and the discovery aspect, but this is the challenge inherent in trusting any tech to sort through "preferences."

I’m so sorry. Ken gave me such generous and thoughtful feedback on dissertation chapters and was such a kind and brilliant person. He will be missed.

TL;DR is that Democrats act like they have time they don't have. GOP is doing better on delivering on a new iteration of ID politics than the left, largely by ignoring institutional responses.

Handwringing over electoral margins is what it is, but this kind of L-wing dissonance can be reordering.

Trump is promising that he can deliver better than institutions, and it will be easy for him to show that when Biden was stemming losses from COVID and Dems invested in opaque ways. "Are you better off?" should have been clearer with trillions in investments.

This isn't just "grievance politics."

2.) Cons won COVID. Set institutional mistrust on fire across the board. Dem responses like Build Back Better and Infl. Red. Act are confined to institutions w/high mistrust. Institutions have longer time horizons than movements. Programatic aid failed to win constituents.