👇🎯 It’s a Big Club, & it needs to be neutralized either by adding a whole bunch of new states or largely subordinating it to the House because actual representative democracy ain’t in it
Mark Copelovitch
My contribution to @liberalcurrents.com's Reconstruction Papers frames the problem of the Senate in particular as its institutional culture's misfit with the rest of the polarized political system, leading to its incoherent operation. Pictures like this make that culture visible
There is something terribly wrong with a polity where supposedly pro-democracy Senators pose in seersucker with the supporters of lawless authoritarianism, who also happen to be the prime enablers of the trillionaires who have committed unprecedented constitutional crimes & mass murder 🤷♂️
Mark Copelovitch
Kevin Elliott
There is something terribly wrong about an economy that produces its first trillionaire, but cannot provide health care for its people.
Or one in which the richest handful of families have the combined wealth of almost forty percent of the rest of the country.
Sen. Adam Schiff
Elon Musk’s net worth of $1.1 trillion is five million times as large as that of the typical family. The median American household had a net worth of just under $200,000 in 2022, the year with the most recent data available from the Federal Reserve. nyti.ms/4aL8sNH
