Professor of International Relations, Georgetown. Former DoD and Senate staff. Foreign policy, political science, case study methods, environment, snark.
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Maine Party Chair Dingman says the process to replace Platner will “have a nominating convention” and “be representative.”
“Convention” evokes the insider process that primaries replaced.“Representative” means voters have a say.
How to square these?
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What about preference falsification by Republicans who will choose a weak candidate? I trust the voters of Maine to exercise their rights responsibly. Rank choice also makes falsification hard.
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It is difficult to convey how monumentally idiotic Trump’s tariffs are.
Allow me to try.
Let’s begin with Adam Smith.
In the 200 years prior to Smith’s 1776 “Wealth of Nations” Mercantilism was the dominant view of trade.
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This brings us back to the term I used deliberately at the outset: idiotic.
The term goes back to the Greek word idiotes, where it had the meaning not only of an unskilled person but also a person acting only for themselves, separate from society.
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