Tillis is retiring from politics after this and has independence from that, but random backbench member of congress who wants to run for senator or governor or get a good job in the executive branch would still be incentivized to be a team player, right?

maybe I'm wrong but it feels like imposing term limits wouldn't really achieve this since many (most?) of these politicians would have other offices in mind and would still need to be in good graces with the party

need to pick between which of these I want to use for my lecture next week because I want to highlight the collective action problem in democratization

You have got the main theme stuck in my head!

doing this on the quarter system where we only have 9 real sections is an especially great bit

"for the next four weeks, our one hour section will be watching Kurosawa's 1954 masterpiece"

this academic year has been my first time lecturing but I've heard some of the other grad students say that they think the students seem generally more engaged this year which makes me hope we're past the post-covid hangover

pedantic but wouldn't it be correct to say "dramatically reduced the Republican trust advantage on the cost of living and the economy"

My other proposal with my advisor went through so it's not even a problem and maybe even a convenience for me, but it's still funny because I had been so often told that it was not something that ever happened to anyone.

Ofc this could just be the story I tell myself to feel better about the electorate lol

As a partisan Dem I really hated talk about "adults in the room" during the first term but the second term makes it obvious they were doing a lot. I think people generally voted for adults in the room Trump and now are disliking material consequences of his unrestrained rule