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Ryan Enos
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Social Scientist, Harvard University
https://www.ryandenos.com/
https://ryandenos.substack.com/

Political science 35%
Sociology 19%

I actually have a vague answer to this: yes, the collective "me" but also the organizations whose purpose is more explicitly to defend our democracy, including recently set up organizations on the local level.

One might interpret the Washington Post news as consistent with my ongoing claim that our legacy institutions, once thought to be the bulwark of civil society, will not save our democracy. They are simply too vulnerable to the extortion leveled by the ruling regime.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
“Ryan Enos, a government professor at Harvard, said Mr. Trump’s shifting demands seemed to show he was motivated by revenge instead of policy goals.
“He’s just looking for a way to win a battle and assert political retribution on an institution that he thinks is defying him,” Mr. Enos said.”
Trump, Changing Course, Throws Harvard Deal Talks Into Chaos
www.nytimes.com

Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"

If you're looking for detailed crosstabs showing Trump's current approval rating among various demographic groups in the US, we've published those here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

For example, 32% of men under 30 currently approve of Trump's job performance; 67% disapprove.
Detailed tables: Trump job approval, January 2026
docs.google.com

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I'm used to having to convince coastal types that there are people out there who genuinely believe in libertarian and traditionalist principles (rather than as laundry for regular bigotry). rarely, however, do you see those types publicly confronted with how little company they actually have

The rise of Newsmax in official congressional e-newsletters is sort of amazing.

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders

This is from Georgia Fort’s video.

DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan