Steven White
notstevenwhite.bsky.social
Steven White
@notstevenwhite.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University. Chess enthusiast. Author of World War II and American Racial Politics (http://amzn.to/3ESQkzP). Now studying the history of police unions. https://notstevenwhite.github.io
It was (is?) unclear if you just meant there are more prominent Democrats advocating further left economic positions or if you were saying "post-liberal" to imply they were pursuing these goals through illiberal/non-democratic means.
November 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Something I think about a lot (because I used it in my dissertation research) is it's kind of funny how high quality the quota control survey era of the 1930s and 1940s increasingly looks compared to the current era.
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
As a side note, I guess I understand why someone would turn off replies from non-followers/etc., but it does incentivize loudly quoting rather than just engaging with someone more quietly.
November 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I agree Harris tried to run as a moderate in 2024, but in 2019/20 she ran as a liberal and the clips of the 2019/20 Harris in attack ads made it awkward for 2024 Harris to convince swing voters she was a moderate.
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Need to share the name of the grim Polish cop show
November 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Unfortunately we can't observe the counterfactual where he didn't say that
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
When it prevents them from winning presidential elections or control of the Senate
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Apparently it's named after one of Robert E. Lee's ancestors, so it's okay to make fun of it
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
A student in my class from NJ said it today but I already forgot and it looks like it won't matter much moving forward
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
(I'm quoting Kevin's thread only because it contains lots of other interesting nuggets you should check out if you're curious about this stuff, not to direct the point at him particularly)
October 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Initially assumed this was a new musical artist young people like that I hadn't heard of yet
October 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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