About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a retired Professor 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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Well, not a scam per se. He really believed in helping working class voters while it was important to his political prospects. Now that it’s not, his focus has shifted to his new constituency. It’s really more of a model of what public service should be in a bipartisan, give and take, go along to get along system.
He’s more of an exemplar than anything else.
ETA: And if that’s what it takes to win…
Well, what else matters? You can’t advance the cause from the minority caucus. Right?
I’m going to add this to your list:
A tale reminiscent of Maoist China. Goodbye to All That.My resignation from the FBI.
@Scott: Jesus Effing Christ. That is a must-read, for the insight into how truly debased our federal law enforcement agencies have become.
With respect to The Atlantic article: “He’s doing it for us.”
Jesus, how delusional are people???
@ScandiLib:
And we thank you heartily for your best wishes. It’s awful having a jackass like Trump at the helm–to extend your nautical metaphor.
ScandiLib‘s comment seems to have vanished. Did I hallucinate it?
@CSK:
I wonder about that. maybe they deleted their post after you replied to it?
Stand by.
ETA: the option to delete still appears with the edit box. Myth Plausible.
@Kathy:
Why would ScandiLib delete it? It was interesting.
I seem to have deleted my comment by mistake. Sorry. I was saying that among my many capers as a boy (details on Wednesday’s forum), sailing my dinghy in a gale was a favorite. (You know, it’s Norway, coastline, fjords, cabin all summer long etc.) It had to go wrong some day and it did. I tried a turn in a storm gust, the boom smacked me in the head and I was knocked out. Luckily wearing my life jacket I woke up floating, then – after a while and a good deal of swimming – finding my rudder and my keel (made of balsa) and getting home somehow (probably with a concussion, but who cared about that stuff in 1971?) but my sail, mast and boom were gone. I finally found the stuff the next evening after a long day scouring the beaches.
I just felt that this is the non-MAGA-America now, trying to ride the gale, being knocked out, barely surviving, looking to saving the wreckage and hoping for luck tomorrow. That’s about it. Again, greetings and best wishes from Norway.