Personally I think sunlight is the best disinfectant, expose regressive views as the ugly side of human nature that they are. I wouldn’t worry too much about this stuff indoctrinating anyone or that the audience is primarily Hitlerphiles.

Thanks for the link.

Yikes. That sounds pretty interesting though. How did they come up with 12? I guess post-French Revolution reactionaries leading up to Napoleon was a nationalist movement (?), but I tend to think of right-wing nationalism more in 20th century terms.

Mitochondria are symbiotic bacteria

Unfortunately it’s not just in the U.S. Movements like the Freedom Party in Austria, the National Front in France, Law and Justice party in Poland, the National Front in France and UKIP are all on the rise.

the issue is that the nexus of power and money that organized politics represent doesn’t allow for positions that money strongly disapproves of;

I agree with most of that, but I don’t agree on the messaging.

It’s possible that a lot of the effectiveness of a ground game is simply a proxy for generating enthusiasm and engagement within the voter base. Trump may not have had much of traditional ground game, but he certainly had an enthusiastic base and /r/The_Donald served as a kind of virtual ground game online, posting…

But the Obama campaign used data to identify support and to complement, not replace, the ground game. Obama for America did the leg work and knocked on a lot of doors and handed out a lot of yard signs.

It sounds like Robbie Mook was too clever by half and overthinking things in terms of strategy. The best data in the world won’t do you any good unless you put it to good use.

You’re right, it’ll probably be closer to corporatism, if his cabinet choices get in and run the federal government like their own personal hedge fund.

The media is doing their best to give them a makeover, though.

Yeah, I forgot (conveniently suppressed from my memory for the sake of my mental health) that he’s planning to let corporate America multi-national corporations run the government. It’s corporatism.

Actually, I agree. I forgot to take the corporate welfare/cronyism and actual regulatory capture of the entire presidential cabinet into account.

So what is it Trump is getting us to support?

Edison Research, which has done all the prior exit polls in our primaries has refused to release the raw data, as it has routinely refused since 2004.

Well, at least Detroit is going to get audited:

Voting irregularities are not a conspiracy theory. It probably wasn’t going to make a difference in the 2016 election, since voter suppression and caging aren’t going to show up in any recount, but you’re really not helping by being dismissive of election integrity issues.

Fair enough.. Personally I don’t worry about possible health consequences of GMOs, there’s just not much, if any, evidence for it. I do worry a bit about the possible environmental consequences of some of the more extreme engineered traits, like what happens when they escape into the wild and cross-breed with natural…

this guy won the Secretary of State job