They shouldn't be.

The pattern is:
GOP in power - GOP dictates policy

Dems in power - GOP dictates policy

The Dems shouldn't legislate toward the GOP.

The GOP doesn't represent its constituents.

The GOP can push it's agenda on its own time.

If Dems push an agenda that actually helps people, it'll also actually help the GOP constituency.

The GOP won't. So give them nothing.
The Dems should ignore the GOP just like the GOP ignores the Dems.

Make them pay for every moment of obstruction.

Just a hard press on legislation that is unassailable and shine a light on the GOP.

Constant. Relentless. Unyielding.

Shut them out and shut them down.
The GOP is not a legitimate political party. It is an anti-democratic, fascist criminal syndicate with no interest whatsoever in governance.

Nobody should give them the slightest bit of credit or legitimacy ever again.

Not a fucking ounce.
Nobody should engage them in legitimate debate in Congress.

They should be pariahs and treated as unserious occupants of Congress.

Because these people were totally ok with their colleagues being killed in furtherance of the destruction of the insitution.
And will their diehard constituents be upset?

Absolutely. But there's many more people in this country that would like a functioning society.

So cater to THEM. Appeal to their needs. Fix their problems.

And if the GOP stands in the way, hammer home that they are.
Don't tolerate lectures about governance or ethics.

It's all in bad faith. And the only way that the public will buy into it is if it's given legitimacy.

Any effort to legitimize the GOP will detract from the fact that they're literally STILL plotting the overthrow of the US.
Give the GOP nothing.

No respect
No credit
No airtime
No platform

Nothing. They have their own dedicated outlets. Let them use them exclusively.

There cannot be even the semblance of business as usual, because it cements the idea that insurrectionists are concerned with usual
The GOP does not stand merely in opposition to Democrats.

It stands in firm opposition to EVERYONE.

All attempts to pretend that this is not the case merely provides a hospitable environment for their toxins to spread.
The GOP is an appendix. It is a vestigial organ long past its usefulness to the body.

And now it is swollen and bursting and threatening to kill us all.

Cut it out.
More people want governance than they want the GOP.

Dems, just accept that as a working presumption and move on.

Trust the people. Take care of the people.

When you don't. They don't give a shit about whether you win or lose.
The only thing Democrats can do at this point is to make the GOP's anti-democratic insurrectionism completely and utterly radioactive to hold onto.

It should be already, but it isn't.

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Which metric is a better predictor of the severity of the fall surge in US states?

1) Margin of Democrat victory in Nov 2020 election
or
2) % infected through Sep 1, 2020

Can you guess which plot is which?


The left plot is based on the % infected through Sep 1, 2020. You can see that there is very little correlation with the % infected since Sep 1.

However, there is a *strong* correlation when using the margin of Biden's victory (right).

Infections % from
https://t.co/WcXlfxv3Ah.


This is the strongest single variable I've seen in being able to explain the severity of this most recent wave in each state.

Not past infections / existing immunity, population density, racial makeup, latitude / weather / humidity, etc.

But political lean.

One can argue that states that lean Democrat are more likely to implement restrictions/mandates.

This is valid, so we test this by using the Government Stringency Index made by @UniofOxford.

We also see a correlation, but it's weaker (R^2=0.36 vs 0.50).

https://t.co/BxBBKwW6ta


To avoid look-ahead bias/confounding variables, here is the same analysis but using 2016 margin of victory as the predictor. Similar results.

This basically says that 2016 election results is a better predictor of the severity of the fall wave than intervention levels in 2020!
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And what do we mean by us / we. We’re not talking about massed ranks of Euro investing / trading etc blue blooded British institutions.

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YarKhan. (ref was proudly shared by a sikh on twitter)
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