Reading archive 2018-12-18

Hey Democrats, Fighting Fair Is for Suckers: Court-packing! Puerto Rican statehood! Votes for felons! Why—and how—the next Democratic majority should play dirty. - "This means that a strategy of Democratic norm-breaking is justifiable only if it can be reasonably expected to result in a lasting political realignment—to break the cycle rather than escalate it. It must so thoroughly disempower the other side that it forestalls serious reprisals. Put simply, the strategy that Faris and others on the left are proposing had better work—because the tit-for-tat conflict that would result from a halfhearted or incomplete attempt would be even worse than the status quo."