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1 week ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Michael Baharaeen |Ruy Teixeira
🤝 "How to Prevent Political Violence," by Amanda Ripley. Following the assassination of a Minnesota state lawmaker last week (and the near assassination of another), Americans are facing the specter of increased political violence yet again. As this leads nowhere good—and fast—it is imperative that cooler heads and saner voices prevail. Enter journalist Amanda Ripley, who has written extensively about American polarization, tribal conflict, and their consequences.
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1 week ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Michael Baharaeen
As Donald Trump ran for a second term last year, a frequent attack he leveled at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris was that they were “weak.” He focused specifically on the porous southern border and conflicts abroad, problems he said never would have happened under his leadership. Enough voters ultimately bought this argument.
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2 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen
⚡️ “After the Green Vortex: Why Energy Policy Bipartisanship Could Be Closer Than We Think,” by Ted Nordhaus. If you read just one article on the future of energy policy, let it be this one from The Breakthrough Institute’s Substack. Absolutely lucid and entirely correct.
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2 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Michael Baharaeen
Editor’s note: Parts one and two of this analysis are available here and here. For background, “One of the most innovative and insightful organizations I’ve discovered in the past few years is the American Communities Project.
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3 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen
ūüďį ‚ÄúDisdain for the Less Educated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice,‚ÄĚ by Michael Sandel. An oldie but a goodie‚ÄĒone that remains as relevant as ever. In the lead-up to the 2020 election, Harvard philosophy professor Michael Sandel argued that the Democratic Party, whose coalition is home to a growing number of credentialed professionals, had erroneously come to believe that the only way for people to get ahead in a post-industrial age was through more formal education.
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3 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Zachary Elwood
Democrats and “Never Trump” Republicans have been warning that Donald Trump is a “danger to democracy” since he ran for president in 2016. But despite years of this message—including in the most recent presidential campaign—it’s clearly been unpersuasive to many Americans. A key reason for this is the perception among some Americans that Democrats and other Trump critics behave in undemocratic ways themselves.
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3 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira
It may be starting to dawn onat least some Democrats that their heavy bet on renewable energy and “net-zero” emissions has been a huge political loser. Early last month, 35 House Democrats voted alongside their Republican colleagues to kill a law in California—a version of which has been adopted by 11 other states—mandating that all new car and truck models sold in the state would have to be “electric or otherwise nonpolluting” by 2035.
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3 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Michael Baharaeen
Editor’s note: Part one of this analysis, including an overview of the project from which the data came from, is available here. For background, “One of the most innovative and insightful organizations I’ve discovered in the past few years is the American Communities Project.
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4 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen
📖 “American Realignment,” by Patrick Ruffini. In The Atlantic, TLP friend Patrick Ruffini examines the evidence about whether or not there is a “realignment” going on in American politics. Ruffini believes there is:Today, machine politics are not held in high esteem. But they did have a way of finding overlooked voting blocs and putting them under protection.
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1 month ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira
The release of the new data and report from Catalist has underscored the extent of Hispanic defection from the Democrats over the last two presidential cycles. We’ve seen massive drops in Democratic support from pretty much every subgroup of Hispanics, albeit with some variation: working-class Hispanics more than the college-educated, women (interestingly) more than men, younger Hispanics more than older ones, and urban residents more than those in the suburbs.