Nate Cohn

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

@MikeMitchNH i'm not making any claim about the popularity of any policy. i'm doubting whether liberalism can thrive if its politics are reduced to the logic, plans and principles of a meritocratic elite, while the rest of society is marginalized without a way to participate — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

@mattyglesias (dems/liberalism would obviously be better off with higher private sector unionization, though that's both a cause and effect of their challenge in an era of declining industry/class conflict) — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

@mattyglesias i don't think the RV/LV gap is historically unusual--perhaps bc of the reversal of the income/edu gap--so i don't think the interaction of age x turnout is terribly relevant — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

@Little_H4mlet it does — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

Popularists posit themselves as a partial solution to this problem, by adding a poll-driven filter to progressive politics. But it's ultimately still a politics by and for college educated progressives--just one that tries not to offend the rest so often. — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

And you can occasionally see it my Twitter replies over the last month; a striking number of replies say some version of 'who cares about what the public thinks' we must do x,y,z. Fair enough, but that kind of undemocratic governing instinct does pose risks! — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

Where popularists and the non-Trumpist conservatives wind up agreeing, tho, is that liberalism has lost its connection to mass politics, thanks to growing educational polarization, the decline of unions/urban machines and class conflict and elite interest group power — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

(This is entirely leaving aside the Trumpist version of undemocratic liberalism, where democracy is dead and the election was stolen) — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

The right's fear of undemocratic liberalism is less obvious--it's not minority rule in elections, but a different sort of minority rule where a technocratic and cultural liberal elite decides what can be said online, what kinds learn in school, whether you need a vaccine etc. — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

The left's fear of undemocratic liberalism is fairly obvious, since it's about democratic institutions: they worry about minority rule, subversion, suppression and so on somewhat more than they worry about an end to the First Amendment or something — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

For all the talk about illiberal democracy, there's a lot to be said for 'undemocratic liberalism' as a challenge in America today--from both the left and the right's point of view. — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

The galaxy brain version of popularism would say liberalism's biggest challenge is that it's no longer especially democratic in a deeper, Dewey-ian sort of way https://t.co/wPH85h5n3e — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

I am not going to weigh in on this, but I want to flag it because it does reflect something I've seen *a lot* of over the last year: intense, behind the scene disagreement over Dem voting rights strategy https://t.co/ey8IRmpjgj — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

I will say that I'd prefer it if that final question (agree/disagree that we accept covid, get on with it) had been a choice between two statements. In general, it's easy to get high levels of agreement on a question like this if you don't have a choice. But the trend is telling — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

The Monmouth poll has a pretty clear story: sliding support for pandemic response measures, despite the omicron surge. At the same time, increasing pessimism about whether we'll ever return to normal, along with agreement that it's time to 'get on with our lives' https://t.co/fZBA0XMKiG — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SteveKornacki: Monmouth poll: Opinion on following statement: “It’s time we accept that Covid is here to stay and we just need to get o… — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

I forgot that! But absolutely true https://t.co/yqwGWekzKg — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

The poll: — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

What was the best San Francisco game-ending INT in an NFC championship game? Was it Kapernick to Sherman? https://t.co/MVqsaXatTZ Or Garoppolo to Howard, with Donald? https://t.co/xwbfnBVnGq — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PoliticsReid: All Seattle fans right now — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

Put it together, and the range of outcomes for redistricting nationwide is still pretty large. There are a lot of seats at stake if you imagine all four of these unknowns (plus FL imo) breaking one way or the other https://t.co/jyKDhMtojE — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Redistrict: Absolutely huge day in redistricting today: a PA Commonwealth Court is slated to select a congressional map (Dems hope it'l… — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

RT @AlecMacGillis: https://t.co/Vrr528rZdC — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

RT @bindersab: I don't know if this counts as "fun fact" 🤓 ... but Breyer was the very first (non-SCOTUS) judicial nominee on which Senate… — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

@NoahCRothman it's validated surprisingly well -- better than i think pollsters would have guessed or hoped -- in comparison to official figures — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

If other pollsters didn't replicate this finding, I'd point to the last line of the first statement--'until cases fall to zero'--as the likely explanation. I can imagine someone supporting emergency measures, but thinking that would mean maintaining them forever — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

That said, I do think this is a pretty reasonable framing. And the poll's other findings tend to be relatively favorable to Biden/Democrats. So it would not surprise me to see this finding confirmed, and that would be fairly telling--we're still in the throes of omicron — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

I'd guess more pollsters try their hands at a question like this over the months ahead, and it'll be interesting to see whether the findings are consistent across different formulations https://t.co/gkNXLTFjfE — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

RT @jasonfurman: GDP growth dramatically outpaced forecasts made a year ago. Most forecasters expected the economy to grow 3 to 4 percent t… — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

RT @ZekeJMiller: WASHINGTON (AP) — US economy grew 6.9% last quarter and 5.7% for all of 2021 in sharp rebound from pandemic recession of 2… — PolitiTweet.org