J. Nelson Seawright
@jnseawright.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. Scholar of Latin American parties, democracy in the Americas, billionaires in politics, multimethod research design and causal inference, and recently right-wing politics.
While this is very fun, it's useful to recognize how widespread and literal demonology is in American right ideology. In the corpus of InfoWars podcasts I've been working with, there are over 66,000 references to demons between 2008 and 2024. GOP House speeches also talk demons!
November 5, 2024 at 6:26 PM
While this is very fun, it's useful to recognize how widespread and literal demonology is in American right ideology. In the corpus of InfoWars podcasts I've been working with, there are over 66,000 references to demons between 2008 and 2024. GOP House speeches also talk demons!
This has been a fascinating election cycle for people interested in the role of billionaires in democratic politics. Ben Page, Matt Lacombe, and I called attention to a pattern that has seriously held true this year: conservative billionaires spend money, while liberal-aligned ones do not.
November 4, 2024 at 4:19 PM
This has been a fascinating election cycle for people interested in the role of billionaires in democratic politics. Ben Page, Matt Lacombe, and I called attention to a pattern that has seriously held true this year: conservative billionaires spend money, while liberal-aligned ones do not.