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Michael Paarlberg

@mpaarlberg

Associate Professor of Political Science @vcu. Associate Fellow @IPS_DC. Ex @SEIU, @guardian, LatAm advisor @BernieSanders. 교포. mpaarlberg.bsky.social

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Me encantaría escuchar al vicepresidente Félix Ulloa, quien supuestamente es un respetado jurista y experto en derecho, explicar cuál es la justificación legal para encarcelar a cientos de deportados que nunca han cometido un delito en El Salvador.

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70% of Americans support unions, and unions are one of the only national mass membership organizations that Democrats can rely on for voter turnout. But by all means, let’s ditch them precisely at the time Dems are hemorrhaging working class voters.

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A reason why centrist Dems are eager to blame “the groups” is that a party that is so top-heavy with donors and strategists and divorced from mass membership organizations can’t imagine grassroots movements developing political agendas on their own without guidance from elites

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Protests are often ineffective because the state can just ignore them. The anti-Iraq War protests are an example. But when the state overreacts and cracks down violently, this drives news coverage and shifts public opinion toward protesters.

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A lesson from Latin American history: armed forces are among the most respected public institutions, but when the primary function of a state military shifts from national defense to domestic repression, it loses legitimacy. This can hasten the downfall of the state.

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Don’t forget Uber tried to break the strike by taxi drivers at JFK airport who were protesting the Muslim ban in the first Trump admin inthesetimes.com/article/taxi-w…