About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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The Beutler piece has a few lines that stood out to me:
We are all being forced to deal with statements, claims, and even policies that are obviously absurd because some of the dumbest, most gullible people on the planet* somehow became the deciding factor in US politics.
And it’s not just Iran, and ICE, and whatnot, i.e., things that, theoretically at least, could form the basis of some sort of reasonable policy disagreement.
We can’t even convince these dumbfucks that a bucket of orange paint and the World’s Worst Overcomb(tm) do not, in fact, constitute signs of physical vigor.
* A group that happens to include some very fancy, very expensive Tallahassee and Kansas City-based lawyers I had the personal misfortune of having had to deal with recently. Just a reminder that if the rubes were just the rubes as we traditionally picture them (i.e., trailer parks and food stamps), we wouldn’t even be in this mess.