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”We are now potentially dealing with a problem of *mass radicalization*. We’re not talking about the case of a few people that got themselves caught up in an extremist milieu
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Striking how the outside-the-system vigilante wing of the far-right are being arrested and charged with serious crimes while inside-the-system elected officials who encouraged vigilante violence are living their best lives
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WSJ analysis of video, court records and social media shows Proud Boys were key instigators of insurrection.One telling moment, a loudmouth shouts well pre-siege: ”Let’s f-ing take the Capitol” and
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”Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys are part of a trend of Far Right organizing that departs from explicitly White nationalist contemporaries, and often fuses antiracist language into otherwise nationalist,
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To make sense of the pro-Trump attack on the Capitol, many folks have analogized to military conflicts like the War of 1812. A better analogy is rooted in our long
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One way to make sense of the last 24 hours — the historic victories in Georgia and pro-Trump siege on the Capitol — is as a long-run contest between two
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With the Electoral College voting today, I thought I’d share two critiques of the institution. First, a historical critique beginning with Paul Finkelman’s paper documenting ”The Proslavery Origins of the
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Remember folks, the Electoral College:— Designed to increase power of slaveholding states via 3/5ths clause— Winner take all rules created, in part, to deny equal voice to Black voters— In
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In close races, no matter who wins, ~50% of voters will see their votes wasted. ”Our system of single-member plurality-winner congressional districts has accelerated polarization, made most voters irrelevant, and
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A recent paper on infant mortality has been getting a lot of attention. A headline summarized: ”Black newborns more likely to die when looked after by White doctors.” There’s been
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Last night I asked “How long before the GOP is a broadly multiethnic, multiracial party?” There were lots of interesting responses and I wanted to summarize some of them in
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For 15 years, I’ve been studying 1960s civil rights protests with particular attention to how nonviolent and violent actions by activists & police influence media, elites, public opinion & voters.
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