Mark Copelovitch
Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
- Again, if you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
- Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party" Journalists never asked Mitch McConnell, e.g., why he was blocking Obama from appointing a SCOTUS judge after Republicans lost the 2012 presidential election. Happy week, everyone!
- It appears this is true. One Special Boy. It would be over today for literally everyone else.
- Your regular reminder that normal, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage - based on total lies about mass voter fraud - the central pillar of their policy platform.
- In a functioning democracy, he would not be president by this evening
- We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History of American Politics, 1865-2026
- And yet, an overwhelming share of our academic, media, business, & civil society colleagues continue to cook their brains at the Nazi Bar every day.
- The far right authoritarian party’s ongoing project of Making Nineteenth Century America Great Again - complete with the spoils system, Jim Crow, unvaccinated populations dying, & a federal government that can’t regulate anything - continues apace.
- New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants. The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...
- 15 years ago today, I went to Berlin for the first time. It was gray & rainy & old & new & a beautifully ugly sprawling mess of everything & I keep going back as often as possible because it stole my heart forever.
