Did you miss the Post-Election Debrief ? Dean Mark J. Rozell was joined by distinguished panel of Dr. David I. Ramadan, Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social, and Terry McAuliffe who analyzed results and answered audience questions. Catch up on key moments from the event below. schar.gmu.edu/news/2024-11/p…

Yesterday Trump announced he's nominating Pete Hegseth as his Secretary of Defense. Hegseth's a prominent Fox News personality & veterans advocate, but he also has strong ties to the Christian far right that I've not seen fully exposed yet. Here's a thread w/ receipts... 1/

This is further evidence for the calcification that Lynn Vavreck, Chris Tausanovitch, and I discussed in our book on 2020.

Despite polarization, thermostatic responses to policy & party in power are typically parallel across groups. This enables misinterpretation. During a conservative backlash to liberal governance, center is also moving right & some on left are questioning if they've gone too far.

Look, I don’t know what exactly Matt is posting about, but keep bringing the Senate Shade. 🕶️🔥

Why is this question always, “What are Dems going to do to win more non-college voters?,” rather than “Why aren’t we making college education accessible for more people?”

For all the talk about this & that & whatever with Trump, this is the real game/set/match for executive power: a SCOTUS ruling that the Impoundment Act is unconstitutional and that POTUS can refuse to spend appropriations. 1/

I didn't realize that a two-sentence tweet would get so much attention, so here is a longer explanation of why Social Security doesn't add to the national debt: 🧵

Hey Southwest Airlines I paid for Earlybird check-in but was assigned a C boarding position. What gives? Why have I paid for a product that does nothing?

Today was my final vote in the House. As I walk out of the chamber for last time, I wanted to share something almost no one notices. The center aisle, the one the President walks down for SOTU, the aisle that divides the R and D sides, ends at an inscription of “Tolerance.”THREAD

When you select on the dependent variable

One problem the Speaker (and anyone else who is actually trying to govern) has is the president-elect has elevated the richest man in the world to an advisory role where he publicly spouts off the political positions of a stoned 10th grader, and it's partially driving the

FFS. All Republicans politics is grifting.

Democrats reduce news consumption when daily news sentiment is negative toward Democrats & increase it when it is negative toward Republicans. Republicans respond to negative Republican sentiment by increasing consumption at conservative news outlets. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

I don’t think America realises this is going to happen again and again and get worse and worse and there’ll be more floods, more droughts, more powerful hurricanes. It’s not politics - Republican or democrat - it’s just physics. #PalisadesWildfire #malibu #LosAngelesFire

NEW: Scores of senior career diplomats are resigning from the State Dept effective at noon on Monday after receiving instructions to do so from Trump’s aides. The forced departures, the prerogative of an incoming admin, indicate a desire to quickly break with the Biden era

He’s a dictator. That’s the tweet. Just popped in to say that.

It's Election Day! Voters in the 11th Congressional District will choose a new U.S. Representative today, Tuesday, Sept. 9. Polls are open until 7 p.m. Details: fairfaxcounty.gov/news/everythin…

Mason Nation! It's (special) Election Day! Polls are open at Merten Hall until 7pm. This is a special election to fill the vacancy in the VA-11 House district, where Mason sits. If you live on campus (+ US citizen, 18yo) YOU ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE RIGHT NOW! #Vote George Mason University

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.