Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@mattyglesias weird how when i get threats from nazis, telling them this never works — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I know that "higher ed" and "corporate" are different things. But the example speaks to the problems of the "diversity industry" that turns racial justice into an HR issue, which IMO is extremely deserving of the criticism it gets. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

The panic over "critical race theory" is ginned up and silly. At the same time, it's clear that there are real problems with the way that certain ideas about race are operationalized in corporate DEI programs. This Stanford incident, for example, is awful https://t.co/RhK0tzzIt7 https://t.co/mN6JrI1VfM — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @mcopelov: Must-read from @zackbeauchamp. Very glad to see the cross-national comparison & focus on competitive authoritarianism. This i… — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

The specific nature of a competitive authoritarian regime in the US would look different in some ways: elections rigged locally, media not taken over but marginalized. But some features would be similar: compliant court, threats to dissenting business. https://t.co/lL8fL8Gj6u — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

It's critical to understand that power in a system like this is wielded subtly, not openly. People still vote, elections still matter. But the system is so rigged it can't fairly be called "democratic." I saw what this looks like firsthand in Hungary. https://t.co/lL8fL8Gj6u https://t.co/ZNQkKdeyaG — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

The current set up of the US Constitution makes us vulnerable to this kind of authoritarianism. The GOP is pushing on those vulnerabilities, exacerbating them to the point where the democratic system could crack https://t.co/lL8fL8Gj6u https://t.co/Cx8wuYKHu3 — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

In competitive authoritarian regimes, the ruling party wields power by: 1) commanding popular support among a specific subset of the population 2) Manipulating elections and undermining key non-state institutions like the free press https://t.co/lL8fL8Gj6u — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

The crucial point here is that there is not just one model of authoritarianism. The threat in the US today is not a re-run of 20th century totalitarianism, but a more subtle kind of authoritarian politics https://t.co/lL8fL8Gj6u https://t.co/VcTQEJgdMW — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

"It’s worth being clear about this: The GOP has become an authoritarian party pushing an authoritarian policy agenda." https://t.co/lL8fL8Gj6u — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Republicans are an authoritarian party now. Here's what their brand of authoritarianism works https://t.co/lL8fL8Gj6u — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@deonteleologist @marclamonthill Hill bringing up CLS, the actual intellectual progenitor of CRT, is a move that's not often made in these conversations but it is devastating to Jimmy's case — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@smsaideman @dandrezner I remember finding myself persuaded back in 2016 by the Brooks/Wohlforth argument that the US can do a "deep engagement" strategy while significantly scaling down optional" military engagements. This still seems like the right balance to me. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @AriBerman: Republicans believe elections are legitimate only when they win & only they are entitled to exercise power. That's not democ… — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

It’s time to call the Republican vision for America what it is: authoritarianism https://t.co/Qy9vfhTvxL — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Another way to put this is that Russian disinformation campaigns can only work because the US is profoundly divided internally. To be more grandiose: the biggest threat to America's strategic position isn't Russia or even China, but domestic partisan polarization. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@zfurnas @JakeMGrumbach hey zander great! send me an email at [email protected] — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Hello political scientists: who do you think are the leading scholars of corporate involvement in partisan politics? — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@kampeas Also: Levi Eshkol won the Six Day War, Begin made peace with Egypt, Rabin inked Oslo and Jordan peace treaty...it's not even close — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Very annoying that the term "PUA" now refers to a Covid unemployment program in addition to internet misogynists who wear ugly hats — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Every time I think I might be overstating the importance of partisan identities as mega-identities (in @LilyMasonPhD's sense), I see a chart like this — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@HussBanai Yes, absolutely! Dominant variants of realism in popular discourse are in-principle hostile to cosmopolitan moral values in ways liberals and leftists should reject — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Things that were good about the 90s political consensus: maintaining US-led alliance system, free trade, democracy promotion Things that were bad: racism, failure to compensate trade's losers, slashing welfare state, rising military interventionism — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

There's pretty good evidence that US-led alliance system, including NATO, has played an important role in ending great power war. Dismantling it is *at best* a giant gamble on an unproven theory of global politics — and, at worst, could lead to catastrophe https://t.co/aaORlOqe2u https://t.co/h987O9v0K7 — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

This is a good example of how easily the restrainer argument can overreach — going from an invaluable corrective to the hawkish DC consensus to advancing bad policy ideas https://t.co/AOgFuLKOFN — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

My take on how Netanyahu’s anti-democratic hubris brought down his reign — and why the new coalition matters https://t.co/INNb4XQ8Rv — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

https://t.co/A4zrUIAJeV — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Sometimes I'm less frustrated by people I fundamentally disagree with than people I broadly agree with making hyperbolic, self-discrediting arguments — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Critical race theory canceled Firefly — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Jordan’s point - that US intervention was decisive, and the war would have been a stalemate at best otherwise - is obviously correct. It’s so dumb and ideologically blinkered to pretend otherwise. — PolitiTweet.org