ICYMI - My contribution to the NYU Law Democracy Project's 100 Ideas is up now, drawing from the conclusions of Backlash Presidents: democracyproject.org/posts/to-sav...

The Backlash Presidency Why Trump followed Obama & got impeached, in historical perspective with comparisons to Nixon after LBJ & Johnson after Lincoln New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast/transcript with @juliaazari.bsky.social www.niskanencenter.org/the-backlash...

Academia is a meritocracy without bias, evidence from a former Harvard president.

Honored to be idea #49 in @democracyproject.bsky.social's 100 ideas! democracyproject.org/posts/to-sav...

🟣 Idea #49 — New by @juliaazari.bsky.social — “To Save Democracy, We Can’t Shy Away From the Toughest Issues” 💡 Part of the @nyulaw.bsky.social Democracy Project "100 Ideas in 100 Days" series 👉 Read here: democracyproject.org/posts/to-sav...

can't understand our times without deep history

Tuesday's elections were about the Democrats finally waking up to the idea of power, maybe open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

The man who eats $200 steaks, has his meals delivered by servants on gold plates, says he doesn’t want to hear anymore about affordability. The political ads write themselves @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

just a big string of lies, and this was entirely predictable. i will never be over the fact that the country chose this again.

Youngkin wins, the press goes on and on and on about how Biden's presidency is over. One train derailment and the press goes apoplectic over Buttigieg. This whatever the fuck is going on with the plane crashes and the shellacking in the election. NYT: Maybe women are a problem in the workforce 🤪

let them eat sandwiches is that anything (federal judge just ordered Trump admin to make Nov. SNAP payments)

I've tried extremely hard and i'm happy to finally be getting some credit

The right wing marketplace’s feud over Tucker Carlson and anti-Semitism is worth watching—it could play a role in whether JD Vance becomes the next President. My new piece at the newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

i'm very annoyed at the punditocracy for co-opting the important message that it's important not to overinterpret elections and turning it into a pile of annoying shit

Nov 5, 2024 was terrible. But it's not Nov 2024 anymore. Trump is much more unpopular. He, not Biden, is getting blamed for affordability challenges. Democratic voters are much more activated. The "racial realignment" didn't even last a year. newrepublic.com/article/2026...

I am officially "out" this week but my fingers started involuntarily typing a Dick Cheney blog post. open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

it's ironic that Dems keep losing voters in the Midwest because this is some apologizing to the person who bumped into you behavior.

intra-party compromise for Dems: *talk* about economic problems. Don't offer solutions that would actually do something to upset the status quo. [sarcasm symbol]

i've had yet another significant and life-overwhelming shit sandwich handed to me as we near the end of 2025. i would appreciate good thoughts or vibes or whatever your jam is, and also will appreciate when you all are willing to read my take on the Democrats discourse a few weeks late...

on my 6th work trip of the semester, the wheels are about to come off, and this lukewarm Diet Coke is really holding me together.

It’s shocking to see what one person has done to traditional Republican elites in just 10 years.

I found this @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social piece so interesting open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

this raises an important point: do states or localities have laws against seeking to be on the ballot for a third term for president? if not they should consider passing them, or other clear, firm measures to enforce the 22nd amendment.

my jokes about unethical political science experiments were never all that funny but they some how got less funny

i got punchy, but i was actually trying to make a real point: theories of Trump's political success undermine each other, and undermine some of the ideas informing what Democrats are fighting about right now. open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

This will always be the week when I felt compelled by current events to apply my professional expertise to a blog post called The Poop Plane and the Nazi tattoo. open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

Thank you for sharing the podcast I recorded with @evanaxelbank.bsky.social about my new book!

Perhaps there’s a reason that the Constitution doesn’t leave the powers over taxation and foreign commerce to the whims of one man. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

ICYMI - My piece on last weekend's marches open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?

Every cycle, we relearn the same lesson: candidates without governing experience can become liabilities fast onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Talked about my book with @evanaxelbank.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

Marquette/Milwaukee, mark your calendars. Dr. Han will join us as part of the Marquette Civic Dialogues program on April 16.

Read a free sample! It's enough for a citation for sure :)

ok i am pretty bummed i'm not teaching party politics until spring

this really gets to the issue. the government is supposed to belong to all of us and it's getting co-opted for personal and political gain at a rate impossible to fully respond to

In a grim world, some good things continue, such as the annual @princetonupress.bsky.social 70% off sale. press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off

Norms, democratic values, and mass protests goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/mass-prote...

love it when Jon's a sappy patriot, and he's pretty understanding about my semester. Been teaching, writing, traveling, book-promoting, running a program on campus, journal-editing, and probably a couple other things that I forgot.

Study presidential communication they said...

"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."

someone praised my book's originality and asked detailed questions about it, so prepare for my insufferable ego!

basically the thesis of my book, but with history and some intensive treatment of impeachment press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

the position of the administration it seems is that it is illegal discrimination and divisive racism for historically excluded groups to organize on that basis to improve their position. it’s basically just a genteel version of david duke’s complaint that there wasn’t a NAACP for white people

And the new episode with @juliaazari.bsky.social is out! share.fireside.fm/episode/6lb2...

Tomorrow at 5am Eastern, the next episode of Circumscription drops (episode title: "Unreconstructed"), featuring my conversation with @juliaazari.bsky.social about transformative presidents and their backlash successors. Check it out: circumscription.fireside.fm

I didn't expect this Wikipedia entry to be a relevant link to include on the episode page for my next episode, but @juliaazari.bsky.social made sure it became relevant: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faintin...

while we're all chatting i guess i'll reshare the stuff i did in the last 24 hours: here's my piece on parties and power goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/politics-i...

i hate it when my inability to wear an offensive Halloween costume compromises my research