Mark Copelovitch
Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, UW - Madison. Jean Monnet Chair, 🇪🇺 & the Global Economy. International political economy, IR, & global finance. Politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
- Don’t use the passive voice, kids. It makes it hard to identify the actors responsible for the actions that caused the outcomes.
- What does "rule of law" mean if you explicitly state that nothing the chief executive does in office can legally implicate him www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- Don't worry, though. According to the Paper of Record, it's not actually corruption unless it comes from Champagne region of France. It's just sparkling potential. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Once a foreign government can openly give the president a half-billion-dollar plane as a personal gift, there’s no red line left between a democracy and a full-blown kleptocracy. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/corruption...
- I really don’t know what to say anymore. The very existence of a crypto product while he is president is both illegal/unconstitutional & wildly corrupt, just like openly monetizing the presidency at his hotel was the same in 2017-21. Yes, terms & accuracy matter. Social media isn’t the problem here.
- So “emergency.” Much “national security.”
- The Great Khan of the Northern Steppes will restore honor & the rule of law to the Eagle Throne More seriously, this is where we’re heading & we don’t want to talk about. Absent Congress doing its damn job & impeaching/removing, stopping the fascism will require this sort of direct challenge.
- Congrats again to the Usual Suspects who told you you were idiots who were hysterically overreacting
- *Violating our NATO & UN treaty obligations by threatening conquest of 🇨🇦 & 🇬🇱/🇩🇰 *Unprecedented natsec communications scandal *Impoundment *Rendition of legal residents to overseas concentration camps Richard Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks by comparison. We’ve lost the plot.
- 🧵 A few months on, many more people have noticed, because it is impossible not to notice the onslaught of wildly illegal, unconstitutional, & authoritarian things happening every day
- Once again, behold the unparalleled parsimony & explanatory power of the Dennis Green Unified Theory Of 🇺🇸 Politics
- Reposted by Mark Copelovitch“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
