Waleed Shahid

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RT @evanlweber: Q: Is your proposal in direct opposition to @JoeBiden’s reported approach on climate? “We need a full-throated mobilizatio… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SeanMcElwee: The abortion ban shows the asymmetry in how media and party leaders treat activists. Abortion ban has ~15% support nationw… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SeanMcElwee: Every reporter should ask Bustos why she’s raising money for an anti-choice Congressman and blacklisting any vendor who wo… — PolitiTweet.org

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lol https://t.co/MwpezcA2o2 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alexkotch: Holy crap lmao: "Just $185 of the roughly $652,000 that House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer raised for his re-election fun… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @gelliottmorris: The bigger divides I'm seeing in the 2020 D primary are not by ideology or race, but by age & edu. Those ages 65+ suppo… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alexkotch: Unreal. https://t.co/UqJZWjeIb4 — PolitiTweet.org

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@maxberger @davidshor @dylanmatt @leedrutman A slightly different argument is that the current FPTP system leads the national party structures to overemphasize the concerns of voters in a handful of suburban districts that are disproportionately more white and wealthy than the base of the party or the population as a whole. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidshor @maxberger @kidairbag @mattyglesias @dylanmatt @leedrutman @AOC t's something that we still see today with the major influence of Wall St + corporate money. See: Cuomo, Schumer, etc. Noted democratic socialist Bayard Rustin pointed out the major contradiction Democrats would face by being both the party of elites + labor in 1965 here: https://t.co/rH802Kassp — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidshor @maxberger @kidairbag @mattyglesias @dylanmatt @leedrutman Bernie and Nixon lost by a lot in NY-14. AOC won by a lot. All ran on a similar platform. IDK how many voters in her district or in Rashida's district are "very liberal." Under PR, voters political identities would move around based on new choices and identities being formed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidshor @maxberger @kidairbag @mattyglesias @dylanmatt @leedrutman @AOC Those different issue cuts also are why many countries with proportional representation tend to have 2-3 different left-wing parties (social democrats and greens/democratic socialists). Sometimes a party of older union members and another for millennials. See Sweden or Portugal. https://t.co/W8lNyzdu3P — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidshor @maxberger @kidairbag @mattyglesias @dylanmatt @leedrutman @AOC Don't you think the racial and cultural identity dynamics among party affiliation would change dramatically under a different system? A lot of the current strong party affiliation among Democrats is a result of the GOP increasingly being associated with racism. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ezralevin: While there's a flood of anti-choice laws being passed in the states, Dem leadership is raising big money at a steakhouse fu… — PolitiTweet.org

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Stuff like this deserves more attention. Joe Biden is the candidate of big money donors. https://t.co/G3PDoQWxNy — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidshor @kidairbag @maxberger @mattyglesias @dylanmatt @leedrutman You've got this wrong. The Austrian center-left party is a social democratic party that fights to strengthen things like single payer health care. The party you've labeled as "Libertarians" is a Liberal Party closer to the views of "New Democrats" like Jim Himes or even Cuomo. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidshor You've got this wrong. The Austrian center-left party is a social democratic party that fights to strengthen things like single payer health care. The party you've labeled as "Libertarians" is a Liberal Party closer to the views of "New Democrats" like Jim Himes or even Cuomo. — PolitiTweet.org

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DCCC's Chair is fundraising for a pro-life Democrat, Dan Lipinski. With all of the attacks on reproductive rights across this country, this is a new low from the Democratic Party leadership. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidshor @kidairbag @maxberger @mattyglesias @dylanmatt @leedrutman My argument is that that one major reason why so many American voters are fairly non-ideological is that our political system is kinda non-ideological. A new system with much starker, clearer choices beyond name recognition would produce different results. Chicken/egg problem. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @justicedems: If this is what they think about @AOC — that she should just stay in her place — imagine what they think about the million… — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias @maxberger @dylanmatt @leedrutman @davidshor It seems like Liberal parties were largely superseded by left-wing parties in both structures. In the US, this, of course, did not happen for a number of reasons -- the ethnic composition of America's working class being perhaps a primary one. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RoriMoseli @mattyglesias @maxberger @dylanmatt @leedrutman @davidshor So what you're saying is that we need a movement at the scale of the anti-apartheid movement to make America a functioning multiracial democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RoriMoseli: @mattyglesias @maxberger @dylanmatt @_waleedshahid @leedrutman @davidshor We abolished the Senate here because it really *i… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RoriMoseli: @mattyglesias @maxberger @dylanmatt @_waleedshahid @leedrutman @davidshor South African here: y'all really, *really* need t… — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias @maxberger @dylanmatt @leedrutman @davidshor Isn't a major part of the history of proportional representation in Europe that it was a concession handed over by Liberal parties to Labour/Socialist third parties who were 'spoiling' Liberal victories? And that it was a reform to better deal with industrial urbanization? — PolitiTweet.org

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@dylanmatt @maxberger @mattyglesias @leedrutman Larry Diamond and Juan Linz's assessment and the election of Donald Trump makes me think the problem is quite severe. https://t.co/84YYNbx7AL — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias @leedrutman has a credible theory. Purity tests for multi-party democracy? — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden might truly believe he can get the GOP to vote with him in a way Obama never could because: 1) he's more conservative than Obama and 2) he thinks he has more appeal with GOP voters than Obama. This was basically his argument for his '08 campaign against Obama and Clinton. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias Even if it's not something he "actually thinks," I feel like he could be more honest with voters about what has happened to the Republican party. It would help build consensus for the kind of political tactics and structural reforms needed to take on the GOP and actually govern. — PolitiTweet.org

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@zackbeauchamp I think you'd enjoy this book and the way it grapples with questions around socialism, social democracy and liberalism. https://t.co/6TzNhhMSL2 — PolitiTweet.org