Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I am not 100 percent sure of this but my sense from sporadic reading of the British press is that people didn’t see the fixed-term thing as a monumental shift in the constitutional order. But it really changes the system in a very fundamental way. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 3, 2019 Hibernated

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The UK abandoned one of the major virtues of parliamentary government when they adopted the Fixed-Term Parliament Act and then David Cameron abandoned parliamentary government entirely in favor of a goofy plebiscite. — PolitiTweet.org

The "actually the U.S. should have a Parliament" crew seems quiet today

Posted Sept. 3, 2019 Hibernated

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Separately from these changes: US institutions work better when political conflict is multi-dimensional but we have unidimensional conflict & the UK has multi-dimensional conflict paired with institutions that are better-suited to one dimension. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 3, 2019 Hibernated