Matthew Dickinson
@MattDickinson44
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Presidency Scholar, specializing in elections, White House organization, decisionmaking, American politics.
Joined January 2012
The question is not whether focusing on affordability is a winning issue now - it seems it is. The debate is over the solutions. #BERNIE
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The Bernie-Mamdani parallels, and what that suggests moving forward. https://t.co/Ptd2wgDZQc
#Mamdani #BERNIE
vtdigger.org
“It was Bernie’s campaign for the presidency in 2016 that gave me the language of democratic socialism to describe my politics,” Zohran Mamdani, New York City mayor-elect, has said.
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The Crystal Ball website had a nice table showing the imprecise relationship between gubernatorial results in NJ and VA and the following midterms - certainly these states are not consistent "bellwethers", particularly as they've turned bluer.
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Conversely, I cautioned them not to overreact to the inevitable media over interpretation of the NYC mayoral race results (which my students are much more interested in). #Mamdani
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Spent much of my weekly politics luncheon today reminding students that arguably the most significant vote today is on California's Prop 50 (which polling suggests will pass.) #Prop50 #Election2025
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The Right Must Stand for Free Speech https://t.co/wgAyg9gFXr Why the Right's efforts to censor speech is not good - for the Right, as well as the Left. #FreeSpeech
compactmag.com
The past few weeks have felt unusually fraught and hectic even for the age of Trump, but some calm and closure seems to be on the horizon.
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A reminder that the 100-Day metric for presidential accomplishments is based on an extraordinary period in American history that has no relevance to modern presidents under normal circumstances. As currently used, it is simply an artificial media contrivance. #100days
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For some unknown reason the X algorithm doesn't want anyone to see this innocuous post. Not sure why... #media
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Fascinating to watch critics push reforms to SC controlled by conservative majority while defending need for judicial independence from Trump's threats. #SupremeCourt #JudgeBoasberg
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This is bound to be a huge letdown for JFK conspiracy theorists. What are they going to do with their lives now? #jfkfiles #JFKassassination
President Trump on JFK Files: "We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files...I don't believe we are are going to redact anything...it's going to be very interesting...approximately 80,000 pages."
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This is a neutral and useful report. I'm cautiously optimistic that it reflects a welcome change in @nytimes news coverage from editorializing to reporting.
nytimes.com
Simmering anger at the billionaire’s unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable Cabinet Room meeting. The president quickly moved to rein in Mr. Musk.
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In our interviews for our OMB book, former aides describe @DA_Stockman as "the best director" in their lifetimes. He's one of the few OMB directors we haven't had a chance to interview - but clearly we need to! #omb #Reagan
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And this:
GOP voters are lined-up very well with Trump when it comes to Ukraine. -74% want a compromise & quick end to the war -Just 34% trust Zelensky to do the right thing (pre-Friday) -62% say the U.S. is giving too much support to Ukraine (Look at entire electorate coming soon)
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It's still not clear to me that the Republican foreign policy "establishment" fully grasps how much Trump's supporters back his moving the party away from the neoconservative policies of the Bush/Cheney era. #Zelensky
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