Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @ConnellyAL: Senior General seems to be warning ASSK and international community against pressuring Tatmadaw over violence in Rakhine, S… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Sometimes, when I’m feeling anxious about things, I count on my friends in poli sci push me completely over the edg… https://t.co/7ZJtgnUXhZ — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

What happens if Trump loses reelection in 2020, declares the vote illegitimate, and has a cabinet full of recently retired generals? ?? — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

#thirsty https://t.co/kMfwvAyeME — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @ObsoleteDogma: Oh https://t.co/iXv37gpSor https://t.co/MubJr5EpCr — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@blakehounshell hard to tell from this whether the DoD investigation just started, or it’s been ongoing but AP just learned of it — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @fordm: Just got an AP push notification solely about a shooting suspect's ethnicity. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @maxjrosenthal: Guys, I have some Personal News Twitter™ for you: https://t.co/ta5Xfe5CVK — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

woo @theatlantic + @mckaycoppins two great tastes that taste great together — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @mattyglesias: Was beaten to this take by @normative which is just as well since I was planning to steal it from his tweets https://t.co… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@NYTimesCohen @jesseltaylor Media could do amazing gaslighting experiment by repeatedly asking Trump what he’ll do with “the Manchuria deal" — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @jesseltaylor: Foreign policy by vague dictate is the new hotness. https://t.co/CtValbH7SU — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Hey Russian-speaking friends: want to share a synopsis of what he’s saying here? https://t.co/ZE8csXYZTX — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

That’s from this good @profmusgrave piece on Russia’s role in Western elections https://t.co/mUF5MEnLQu — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Putin might be about to learn a lesson the US has learned many times: "installing friendly regimes in other countri… https://t.co/cmbSouQoDx — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @DanielWickham93: Syrian MB framed 1976-82 uprising in 'explicitly sectarian terms' vs Alawis. Regime also fuelled sectarianism (discrim… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @DanielWickham93: Steve Bannon said excluding African-Americans from voting 'not such a bad thing', talked about genetic superiority htt… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @bradplumer: Reading about Nixon is a good reminder that the bar for "most corrupt US president ever" is really high: https://t.co/Ldqd3… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @cbudoffbrown: Trump believes "the Dem establishment will try to steal" his victory, adviser tells @politicoalex @AndrewRestuccia https:… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@robmickey @profmusgrave This looks great — thanks! — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Still: the oceans that separate the US from the rest of the world do not make it immune from the forces that have corroded other democracies — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

That’s not to say democracy will collapse, nor that it’s invincible. We simply don’t have the data to know how resilient it is, or isn’t. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

We think of the phrase “the American experiment” as a sly wink to our national youth. But it’s true: liberal democracy is still experimental — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

And as @profmusgrave points out, while US democracy has been extremely stable, it’s record is far from perfect https://t.co/K2oHP4bbQL — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

But the dataset is really small. Just a handful of countries have reached that level of consolidation, and most very recently. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

There’s good reason to think rich consolidated democracies are extremely resilient: they just don't fail. It hasn’t ever really happened. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Our conversations often lead to an unanswerable question: are rich consolidated democracies like America's really as resilient as we think? — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Can’t tell you how many scholars of authoritarianism have told me, about some little parallel or another, “I never thought I’d see it here." — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Undermining popular faith in the legitimacy of the democratic process is often a first step toward authoritarianism… https://t.co/ni6xIAIM42 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I wrote this in October about the parallels between Trump’s attacks on democratic legitimacy and strongmen autocrat… https://t.co/e8kb5Vt7Ji — PolitiTweet.org