Alex Keyssar

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Alex Keyssar

Alex Keyssar

@AlexKeyssar

Professor @Harvard Kennedy School. Author of The Right to Vote: the Contested History of Democracy in the U.S. and Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

Cambridge, Mass. Присоединился Haziran 2020
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Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School@Kennedy_School·
.@AlexKeyssar says the first few weeks of the Trump administration may constitute the most severe attack on the rule of law in the U.S. since the Civil War. Read more about Professor Keyssar's thoughts ➡️ ken.sc/41iwzxN
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Alex Keyssar@AlexKeyssar·
@ChrisMurphyCT Thanks for offering these thoughts. Totally agree about breaking with neoliberalism -- but replacing it with what? It might also be helpful if you defined the "populism" you want to embrace. We need a clearer picture of the future we want to build. Good luck to us all.
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Chris Murphy 🟧
Chris Murphy 🟧@ChrisMurphyCT·
10/ Those are hard things for the left. A firm break with neoliberalism. Listen to poor and rural people, men in crisis. Don't decide for them. Pick fights. Embrace populism. Build a big tent. Be less judgmental. But we are beyond small fixes.
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Chris Murphy 🟧@ChrisMurphyCT·
That was a cataclysm. Electoral map wipeout. Senate D practical ceiling is now 52 seats. R's is 62. Time to rebuild the left. We are out of touch with the crisis of meaning/purpose fueling MAGA. We refuse to pick big fights. Our tent is too small. 1/ Some early thoughts:
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Alex Keyssar@AlexKeyssar·
Looking at exit polls and wondering if "non-college" is actually a good proxy for "working class." Anyone have any thoughts (or information!) on this?
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@GravityFMpod@GravityFMpod·
NEW:📣 Democracy remains an unfinished project. Ahead of the US election, our new episode with @Harvard Professor @AlexKeyssar is a must-listen to see what's at stake and how to protect the right to vote: thegravity.fm/#/episode/61
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Alex Keyssar@AlexKeyssar·
Given Trump's increasingly evident deterioration, shouldn't more attention be focused on the likelihood that a Trump victory would mean that JD Vance will soon become president? How scary is that?
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Alex Keyssar@AlexKeyssar·
@JRakove The traditional claim is that the EC helps small states by giving them more electoral votes per capita. But it's a tiny advantage. Historically, many key leaders of the movement to abolish the EC came from small states and in Congress many small states voted to end the EC.
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Jack Rakove
Jack Rakove@JRakove·
The simpler explanation is that the size=populousness of a state has nothing at all to do with the interests that motivate its voters or leaders, with the notable potential exception of occasions when one is voting on the rules of voting. /1/
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban

I've never heard a single good argument for how the electoral college helps small states. Realistically, it barely does. It mostly benefits states that are closely split in partisanship, whether they're small or large. Everyone else, from Wyoming to California, is irrelevant.

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Archon Fung
Archon Fung@Arfung·
In part, this is the test of the democratic (small-d) innovation skills of the DNC - can they craft a process that is legitimate, compelling, inclusive, participatory, and wise - to select the Democratic candidate - RCV? Citizen Assemblies? Public deliberation?
Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸@AndrewYang

Remarkable leadership shown by Joe Biden. Now it falls to the DNC to show equal leadership by having an open process to determine the best candidate(s) to take on Trump - Vance in November. The goal should be simple - to win.

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Alex Keyssar@AlexKeyssar·
The French elections offer food for thought for us in the U.S. Their two-round majoritarian system not only produced a different outcome than the first round; it generated extraordinary, energetic political mobilization and popular engagement between the two rounds. Hmmm.
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Alex Keyssar@AlexKeyssar·
Has there ever been a US president who complained that he could not do his job effectively because he feared criminal prosecution? Yet the Scotus majority believes the danger of that occurring outweighs the danger of allowing a chief executive to commit criminal acts. Weird.
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