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Josh Zingher

@zingherpolisci.bsky.social

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Political Scientist. Author of “Political Choice in a Polarized America” @OUP. Dad. Sauna enthusiast. Crossword solver. Powerlifter. Cyclist. ✡️ ∞ Views are mine alone. RT!=endorsement

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · Mar 28

The Trump Administration is trying to forge a personalist authoritarian regime and honestly the conditions for success are there. However, they're *way* out over their skis at the moment. Their pure recklessness is making their path to success way harder 1/x

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 6h

Would love to hear Trump opine on the distinction between Muslims and Arabs.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 6h

He definitely didn’t write this post.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 6h

I gotta say, his track record minus Brady is not doing his legacy any favors. Should’ve quit while he was ahead.

Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 6h

We ordered a couple pairs of window blinds that shipped from overseas (Vietnam I think) that have been MIA at customs for the last month. Turns out, we get an email from the company blaming the delay on the end of the de minimis exemption.

Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks for the dumb and dishonest interpretation of my post.

Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 8h

From your lips to god’s ears.

Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 10h

The “iconoclastic professor” bit always collapses down to pure, gutter racism in the end, doesn’t it? The British Charles Murray

Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 10h

TRUMP HOLDS ROUNDTABLE WITH EASTER BUNNY, SANTA CLAUS, AND THE TOOTH FAIRY. MAKES LEWD COMMENT ABOUT TOOTH FAIRY'S APPEARANCE AND WANTS TO KNOW "WHAT SHE DOES WITH ALL THOSE TEETH?"

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 11h

He has 4x as many ex wives as he does hits.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 11h

I, for one, like eating more than racism.

Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 11h

I have no idea what's in the Epstein files, and I suspect they're probably less revealing than the buildup they're getting, but hammering Mike Johnson on them at every opportunity is good politics. Maybe they are so bad Johnson is actively hiding.

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 11h

Jeffries says Dems "have made clear privately and publicly" to Mike Johnson that Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) must be sworn in.

"Why the delay?" he asks. "Does it have anything to do with Republicans continuing effort to hide the Epstein files from the American people?"

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 12h

Pregnant women from South America famously come here to rabble rouse.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13h

AND *you're* biased if you point this out

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13h

and most people's tax money is taken directly out of their paycheck. You have to file to get your return.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13h

observationally equivalent

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 15h

Trump 2.0 is a lesson in power. Trump's real power stems from the ability to warp collective reality to suit his purposes. He's bent our perceptions to the point where major media outlets are credulously going along with his "Blue cities under siege" framing. 1/3

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 15h

Like, you can go to Chicago or Portland or DC and see people out walking their dogs or getting coffee and just going about their days with your own eyes, and yet a decent part of the country thinks they're war zones. It's the wildest shit. Trump has been disfigured reality, and that's real power.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 15h

Real power is telling people not to believe their lying eyes and they actually go along with it. No ideology is can escape reality indefinitely, but it has been wild to see how successful he's been in getting people to go along with a narrative that you could charitably describ as bullshit 2/3

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, a lot of things that will cause this whole thing to collapse are endemic to Trump himself.

Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

President Deals is shockingly bad at making deals.

Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

A bunch of my students are in the guard and some of them got roped into the inauguration, which meant they had to sleep on the floor of a federal building and ate MREs for two days.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

Dunking on a bunch of guys who likely 1) don’t want to be there, 2) are away from their jobs and families, and 3) have no choice in the matter is not how you do it, folks. Bad look.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve gotta get my money out of the market.

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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 1d

221% is far beyond anything we've seen in modern markets. The dot-com bubble that everyone references as peak insanity only hit 142%. We've now added the equivalent of an entire US economy in market cap just since April, while actual economic growth barely moved.

What worries me

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The image is a post from "The Kobeissi Letter" on X (formerly Twitter) discussing the U.S. stock market capitalization-to-GDP ratio, also known as the Buffett Indicator. The post states that the ratio has reached a record high of 221% in 2025 and provides a chart visualizing this trend.
The U.S. stock market capitalization-to-GDP ratio has reached a record 221% in 2025.
This metric is 4.6 times higher than its low during the 2008 Financial Crisis and significantly higher than its peak of 142% during the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble.
The ratio has remained above its long-term average of approximately 87% for several years.
The chart shows the ratio's historical trend, highlighting the peaks during the Dot-Com Bubble (2000), the Global Financial Crisis (2008), and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020).

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