Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I guess this could all be a big liberal conspiracy, where researchers around the world accurately assess democracy health internationally as part of a plan to stick it to the GOP. Alternatively, maybe they're picking up on something real? — PolitiTweet.org

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These measurements accurately capture what we all see in most other countries — China is fully undemocratic, Turkey has backslid, etc. They are consistent with observable facts like January 6th and GOP leaders rejecting the results of the 2020 election. — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course there are methodological concerns. Quantifying big abstract concepts like "democracy" is really hard! That's why we have multiple different measurements by different outfits that do things different way. When you keep getting the same outputs, it's fairly noteworthy. — PolitiTweet.org

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Every single academic attempt at measuring party ideology, including those developed by researchers in Sweden: Republicans are turning against democracy Conservatives: the problem, to me, are the academics — PolitiTweet.org

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@atrupar Aaron! You're on leave, go do what I did when I was on leave and play a lot of video games — PolitiTweet.org

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What's the best thing folks have read recently on both sides of the "two state solution is dead" debate? I've been going through the back-and-forth and I want to make sure I don't miss any important cites — PolitiTweet.org

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@dandrezner I meant remarkable as in "noteworthy" rather than "surprising," but point taken — PolitiTweet.org

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Pretty remarkable to see people discovering longstanding and well-respected political science research via a 538 chart dismiss it out of hand because it conflicts with their priors — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbouie @notstevenwhite https://t.co/Di1ziMHVKL — PolitiTweet.org

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@Zeddary wait those last three movies are all awesome, what are you talking about — PolitiTweet.org

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@notstevenwhite The only plausible argument is that it should have improved since 1970 given the departure of Dixiecrat types — which, you know, doesn't do the work that the people making this argument want it to — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't have to worry about this because 1) my employer is great and 2) I'm Jewish, which inoculates me from certain bad-faith smears. But there is a massive, *massive* pro-Israel censorship machine — backed by watchdog organizations and actual legislation https://t.co/W3XPXtfS9c https://t.co/3IVHP97J8z — PolitiTweet.org

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Whatever your position on the current conflict, you should be able to acknowledge that the the suppression of pro-Palestinian speech in the US is a real and very serious problem — PolitiTweet.org

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@AlexWardVox i gotta stop these typoes — PolitiTweet.org

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@AlexWardVox i should have to wear long sleeves in may alex, you know this — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin oh i'm not so much an east coast weather stan as a hot weather person. the winters are terrible, it's very good that humanity is working on abolishing them — PolitiTweet.org

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Also the cold has prevented the cicadas from coming out, and the cicadas are awesome — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes! We have labored under the curse of a too cool spring for too long. Bring on shorts weather!! — PolitiTweet.org

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Are there any good papers comparing the long arcs of Israeli and Indian politics? Seems like a lot of interesting points of comparison — most notably rising ethno-nationalism and decline of left parties that were hegemonic for many years after independence. — PolitiTweet.org

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I genuinely do not care what people choose to do about masks once they're fully vaccinated, and I find it hard to understand why anyone would — PolitiTweet.org

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The current crackup between Democrats and Israel was predictable and, in fact, predicted. Here's what I wrote about this all the way back in 2015 https://t.co/lsxR4ob3FR https://t.co/z5uhSzEO74 — PolitiTweet.org

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Excellent piece on how the law of war applies to Gaza https://t.co/z1P6UHTGPM — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CasMudde: Excellent article by @zackbeauchamp on "Israel's unraveling" and Netanyahu's role in it. https://t.co/1Ty8yT2XST — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AlexWardVox: “If I had to sum it up in one sentence: yes, Netanyahu is completely to blame,” said Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud, a research fello… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JamilSmith: “Ultimately,” @zackbeauchamp writes, “the current violence is the result of the longstanding marginalization of Israel’s Ar… — PolitiTweet.org

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The violence in Israel's streets shows just how fundamentally 12 years of Netanyahu's rule damaged the country https://t.co/iH06TWNm1g https://t.co/BIEzbwFPNh — PolitiTweet.org

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Why an unprecedented wave of mob violence is sweeping Israel’s cities https://t.co/jsyapOAnog — PolitiTweet.org

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@AdamSerwer korra omg! great name for a very good dog — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@jtlevy I agree with your general point about both international trends and Bibi, but it's worth noting that observers on the ground think that what happened in East Jerusalem was more a product of his distraction than calculation — and that the Hamas attack was a complete surprise — PolitiTweet.org

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Thanks to Matt for summarizing one of the core parts of my beat in a single tweet — PolitiTweet.org