Darel E. Paul
@darelmass
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Professor of Political Science | Scholar of contemporary elite ideologies |
Massachusetts, USA
Joined May 2011
RT @WSJ: Millions will lose Medicaid coverage, hospitals’ uncompensated work will increase and insurers will lose big business as a result….
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One thing to add to @henryolsenEPPC's great analysis. A viable 3rd party in a simple plurality voting system like the US requires a political environment that is not highly nationalized. The US is not that polity. Thus Musk's @AmericaPartyX is DOA.
Republicans shouldn't fret much about Elon Musk's new party or his threats to primary them. Read why @washexaminer!.
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Economic growth is the primary glue of any postmodern society. If 🇺🇸 had the same economy as 🇬🇧, we'd be in just as much trouble.
Recent polling from Gallup finds that just 58% of Americans report that they are “very” or “extremely” proud to be an American—the lowest figure on record, down from a peak of 91% post-9/11.
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Thinking about @theSNP's loss last month in the big Holyrood by-election, maybe the problem isn't the SNP so much as the problem is the party's candidate Katy Loudon?
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RT @ByMikeBaker: Texas officials have long worried about the dangers to children who packed into camps each summer along the flood-prone Gu….
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Prediction: there will not be an autocratic takeover of the American state in the next 3 years, and when it doesn't happen the academics like Skocpol who predicted it will face no loss of standing in elite discourse, just like foreign policy pundits who supported the Iraq War.
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RT @dianemontagna: JUST IN: New Book Supports Authenticity of Official Vatican Report . The just-released Italian book contains not only th….
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I enjoyed this piece by @arisroussinos but am left with important questions. If the "YooKay" is an illegitimate & expiring polity, what is "Britain" that waits in the wings? Should we not say instead "England"? Must Scotland secede? Can London remain?.
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RT @mi233695: China's Live births Table for the first 5 months of 2025. Due to the lack of samples, it is doubtful that we can observe a….
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Europeans in general and Italians in particular have refused to produce more people for 50 years now, so this is unsurprising.
Italy will open work visas to half a million non-EU nationals to address “labor shortages.”. Follow: @AFpost
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Nordic fertility decline appears to have mostly stabilized. Central and Eastern Europe continue to disappear. Keep an eye on Taiwan and Thailand, both on track to supplant South Korea as the world's lowest national TFRs.
New monthly birth update is out! Turns out 2025 will bring an even steeper decline of the number of births than 2024 with many countries now reporting double-digit declines.
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RT @pegobry_en: Since you unblocked me just to post this, I’ll respond in earnest. 1. Obviously, a world in which suit wearing becomes an….
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Short of an economic depression, no voting bloc exists for such a party.
When the right adds $12 trillion in debt in six years and the left nominates a NYC mayoral candidate who speaks of “seizing the means of production”, it’s time for a new American political movement committed to common sense.
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RT @juliadyost: In two years, the phrase “vibe shift” has gone from coinage to cliché. Political meaning is now “coded.” With so much chang….
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As both a member of a TLM parish and a 13th-generation American, I am very thankful that the Church now has a Holy Father in Leo who does not despise on principle either traditionalist Catholics or Americans.
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