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Seth Masket Apr 28, 2023

Brendan Nyhan Apr 28, 2023

Important @smotus on the dangers of over-interpreting the DeSantis trajectory - may just be the normal pattern of surge and decline https://smotus.substack.com/p/you-can-do-everything-right-and-still

You can do everything right and still lose

We're missing the point on campaign styles and nominations

Tusk

Seth Masket Feb 28, 2023

Please subscribe to my newsletter "Tusk," which is following the Republican presidential invisible primary for the next year and a half. https://smotus.substack.com

Tusk | Seth Masket | Substack

Inside the Republican invisible primary of 2024, from the perspective of a political scientist. Click to read Tusk, by Seth Masket, a Substack publication with hundreds of readers.

Seth Masket Jan 28, 2023

Um, no, we are not closer to Armageddon today than we were in October of 1962, and this is a stupid hackish thing and always has been.

Seth Masket Jan 26, 2023

Occam's Leafblower

Seth Masket Jan 24, 2023

This tweet is perfect and may be enough to lure me back to that hellsite.

Show thread

Seth Masket Jan 24, 2023

But while we're at it, can Pence view classified documents alone, or does his wife need to be in the room at the same time?

Seth Masket Jan 24, 2023

Okay seriously, does pretty much every federal official just keep classified documents in their home? Because it would be helpful to know that.

Seth Masket Jan 22, 2023

Center on American Politics Jan 22, 2023

New at the CAPtain's Log: When the GOP stopped vetting candidates, by @smotus
https://korbel.du.edu/americanpolitics/news-events/all-articles/when-gop-stopped-vetting-candidates

When the GOP Stopped Vetting Candidates

University of Denver

Seth Masket Jan 22, 2023

A bad nominee can embarrass a party and damage its reputation. Here's why the GOP stopped caring. My latest at @latimes. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-01-22/republicans-solomon-pena-george-santos-vetting-candidates-democrats

Op-Ed: Skeletons in your closet? No problem, you can be a GOP candidate

Screening candidates was a major role that parties played to determine who's electable. But the Republican Party no longer values that, as recent scandals show.

Los Angeles Times

Seth Masket Jan 21, 2023

Biden's first two years have been far more productive and more scandal- and gaffe-free than we had any right to expect from his history. That has a lot to do with having a very good chief of staff, who exerted discipline and control without making himself the story.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/us/politics/ron-klain-resigning.html

Ron Klain Expected to Step Down as Biden’s White House Chief of Staff

Mr. Klain’s departure would mark a rare moment of high-level turnover in an administration that has been remarkably stable through two years of crises and political battles.