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Ethan Jasny

4 Articles

Artificial Majorities: How the Brexit Realignment Hinders Labour’s Electoral Prospects

Brexit was a catalyst for partisan realignment around the Leave-Remain divide, with Conservatives gaining Leavers and Labour capturing Remainers. But given the poor geographic apportionment of Remain voters across the U.K.’s electoral districts, a Labour coalition built mainly on Remain support faces an uphill battle in first-past-the-post elections.

Artificial Majorities: Why Joe Manchin Shouldn’t Matter

The media seems to have a fascination with West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin. Given the countless profile and opinion pieces attempting to provide the definitive take on the idiosyncrasies of the Democrats’ most conservative senator...

Progressives Have a Serious PR Problem

There’s one problem: the policies of contemporary American democratic socialists aren’t really socialist at all. Rather, progressives are actively misrepresenting their own views in the process of sloganeering. 

In Pointless Canadian Election, Neither Liberals nor Conservatives Learn Their Lessons From 2019

The optimistic takeaway is that this election was a vote of confidence in the status quo. But perhaps the more realistic reading of the results is that neither party made a compelling case for why they deserved greater legislative control.