Safe to assume he’s following the Desantis model?

Not true about the book, or not true about empires?

I do not think you can build a functional and viable Liberal State in a zero-sum political economy. If people think they're competing for scare resources with The Others, it activates every reactionary instinct they have. It's not good!

I think there’s a risk that abundance liberalism decomposes into popularism/deliverism, but isn’t there a version that’s basically New Deal/American Century politics updated to work in a post-material political world?

This sort of strategic thinking is alienating Democrats from persuadable voters. Educated folk think in outcomes, but the median voter can’t draw a line between policy and their everyday lives; they heuristically seek people who act/talk like they would in this situation.

Actually, I would say that the strategy is even narrower: “don’t lose.” The key insight of Trumpism along this dimension is that you can never “lose the battle but win the war,” because the war never ends.

At the least, the Trump era should have convinced every electioneering-focused person that strategy is dead and tactics are king.

This sort of strategic thinking is alienating Democrats from persuadable voters. Educated folk think in outcomes, but the median voter can’t draw a line between policy and their everyday lives; they heuristically seek people who act/talk like they would in this situation.

Congrats! Just preordered the ebook. Expect to forget about it between now and delivery, which is apropos.

It seems like many people get into editing in general, and TTRPG editing in particular, by existing on the periphery of these spaces and then discovering they have an aptitude for it. What sorts of skills, education, or experience should lead a person to expect that they would be well suited to it?

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