Don't want to hijack the thread, but I'm also convinced that Cosmo Kramer is a Trump voter (Newman presumably too): substack.com/@andrewrober.... I don't think he gets on the ICE train though.

I think Michael Bailey's work is one of the examples: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... It's not my area though.

To separate content and style. On the first few drafts, the important thing is to get ideas and text on paper. Just ignore style, grammar, and organization, which all slow you down. You can fix all that stuff later during revisions. Ofc, don't forget to revise many times after you write the content.

But it all fits together. He is very explicitly an interim president. He came out of retirement (he is 86 and stepped down as president in 2009) when the last president resigned and is only serving until a new president is chosen.

There's a nice book on the subject by Jelena Subotic: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Reminds me of one of my favorite Geoff Nunberg pieces on the use of English accents in movies: freshairarchive.org/segments/arc.... Apparently the equation of British accent & villain started in the sword-and-sandal epics before moving to fantasy and sci-fi.

He's the son of a good political scientist too, which makes it stranger.

Thanks for the overly kind words. I learned so much from your work on all these issues.

Congrats, Martin! You should be proud! Hope we can celebrate it some time.

Here's some (imperfect) data on this point: andrewroberts.substack.com/p/how-politi.... It seems that AP, CP, and IR agree on most issues around Trump with PT something of an outlier.

I'm teaching a good portion of it next week in Comparative Political Institutions. A really nice set of selections. I added updates on several of the pieces (Geddes and Hooghe & Marks on Lipset and Rokkan; Katz & Mair on cartel parties to update Kirchheimer).

Thanks for the nice link! Your own ideas are an inspiration and far cleverer than mine.

Seriously, would love to see a replication of Fred Greenstein's Children and Politics if it hasn't been done already. His little subjects were big fans of executive authority (eg, the president is the best man in the world) and the police.

I've written a little about differences in the views of political scientists and ordinary people here: andrewroberts.substack.com/p/do-politic....

I thought this was great. Congratulations! I'd be curious how political scientists answer the same questions. Bright Line Watch has been conducting surveys of them for a while. Maybe they'd agree to include them in their next round.