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Margins Matter: Landslides Are the Last Defense Against Authoritarians

In this era, close elections are suicide for Democrats.

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Kristoffer Ealy
Sep 14, 2025
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There’s a strange kind of political amnesia that sets in every election cycle. People convince themselves that the way things feel in the moment is the way they’ve always been, or that a string of bad breaks means the system is permanently rigged against them. It’s human nature to turn frustration into fatalism, especially wh…

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Political science prof & political psych nerd. Writes about groupthink, power, & American nonsense. Sometimes funny on purpose. 📬 professorealy.substack.com 🐦 kmezdoesit.bsky.social
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