The Transionality of Politics
You’ve heard them too: “Voters have become extreme,” or “This mistake could end his campaign,” or “Obama’s success has shown that race doesn’t matter” — all pieces of warmed-over analysis that political scientists no longer take seriously. But political science is a contradictio in terminis. And a reductio ad absurdum. People who are ideologically consistent hold beliefs that line up with each other as we’d assume in modern party politics: For example, a liberal who supports gay marriage probably also […]
