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to oversee a bilateral commission to strengthen those ties unattached to any bureaucracy and with a unique convening power vice presidents can be a force multiplier and bring focus to key issues george h w bush oversaw regulatory reform and a counter terror task force besides several bilateral commissions gore ran the reinventing government initiative biden managed the stimulus spending for obama biden will probably give you a few such assignments biden is famously friendly you ll get along great with him but that doesn t mean that your efforts mesh politically with the white house which is a big bureaucracy in its own right having some of your staffers in senior white house positions would be great but unlikely encourage your staff to get close to their white house counterparts and consider bringing experienced biden staffers onto your team your job is to help the president any way that you can everything you know about the president what he s worried about what he needs what he doesn t know that he should can help you help him congratulations and good luck we all are wishing you every success we re all counting on you aaron mannes is a lecturer at the university of maryland school of public policy he wrote his dissertation on vice presidential influence follow him on twitter awmannes posted by aaron mannes at 3 04 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday july 5 2020 independence day the morning after we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness yesterday we celebrated independence day today we woke up to a complicated messy reality the ideals of the united states of america so eloquently expressed in the declaration of independence are inspiring but we see almost constantly how we fail to live up to them the national failure of covid 19 has exposed so many ways in which the united states is failing to secure the inalienable rights of the american people from poor public health infrastructure to the weakened social safety net the rest of the economically developed world has managed the pandemic at high cost to be sure and is ready to go back to business the united states is wallowing in an ongoing and at least to some extent avoidable crisis there are other failures beyond those linked to covid 19 the criminal justice system institutional racism and sexism and the way in which the financial industry preys upon those who have the least are just a few of the issues highlighted in recent years we are in an era of what samuel huntington called creedal passion in which the american people seek to bring american reality into alignment with our core values our creed these are periods of enormous ferment and tumult like the sixties or the progressive era in such times the nation s history comes under scrutiny we have never lived up to our values building the united states involved massive crimes against the native americans the slavery of african americans and other terrible depredations reputed golden ages such as the fifties were built on systematic repression of african americans women were constrained in their choices while corporations were able to harm the environment and consumers with limited oversight but this bleak view is not completely fair our values are not just a sham we do in fact strive for them it took too long but slavery was destroyed it took too long but women received the right vote the united states has accepted immigrants from around the world and allowed them to enjoy life liberty and the pursuit of happiness in a way they could not in their nation of origin i have a personal stake in this my people were at the bottom rung of the latter across europe for over a millennium here in the united states we have prospered been accepted and have been safe in a way unprecedented in our long history i love this country for what it has meant for me my family and so very many i want all americans and ultimately all people to enjoy their inalienable rights there is much to be done posted by aaron mannes at 8 42 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday august 11 2019 a note of hope on anti semitism in america today is tisha b av the saddest day in the jewish year it is the day we remember the destruction of the ancient temples it is a day of mourning fasting and contemplation as it ends however it turns to a message of hope that what was lost will be rebuilt and renewed as it is nearly over let me offer a message of hope i too am horrified by the seemingly endless cycle of massacres and sadly american jews have been an all too frequent target the massacre at the pittsburgh synagogue was the deadliest attack on jews in american history and has since been followed by shootings at synagogues in san diego and miami where s the hope at synagogue after one of these incidents the rabbi asked for thoughts when the room was silent i offered this none of us have any illusions that anti semites are out there and want our blood but they are a fringe unlike so many times in our history there are no mobs gathering the streets calling for our blood and the government is not complicit it is absolutely opposed when anti semitic incidents occur does anyone doubt that the police are committed to protecting us when an incident occurred here and the fbi became involved was there any question that they were not investigating diligently when incidents occur do our neighbors say like they may have said in germany or poland where our ancestors fled well jews what can you expect the answer is no i am sad that we have felt the need to hire a policeman to sit outside our synagogue on shabbat but i do not doubt that he will do his uttermost to protect us if something did happen our neighbors of every faith or none would be here to support us our political leaders would condemn it vehemently i am horrified by the violence like all of you but i am still heartened that in this country we are not alone that is my message of hope for those observing i hope you had a meaningful fast posted by aaron mannes at 8 59 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday october 24 2018 political violence in an age of creedal passion my regular readers and pretty much everyone i talk to knows that i am trying to write about some deep cycles in u s history that are shaping our current political environment i want it to be a book and am writing academic papers for various conferences in an effort to make it happen to that end i submitted a paper entitled political violence in an age of creedal passion to the southern political science association the abstract is as follows this paper will explore patterns of political violence during periods of creedal passion and how this type of violence might manifest in the coming decade in american politics the promise of disharmony samuel huntington identified the second and third decades of the 21st century as a period of creedal passion in which the american people seek to bridge the gap between their institutions and their ideals the previous periods of creedal passion include the american revolution the jacksonian era and the progressive era and most recently the sixties and seventies the present day evinces the characteristics of these eras including public opposition to hierarchies and concentrations questioning traditional sources of authority and a focus on long standing sources of social inequality each of these eras was accompanied by significant political violence from the outright revolt against british rule to the rioting during the jacksonian era the anarchists of the progressive era and the leftist extremism that accompanied the sixties and seventies these eras were not necessarily more violent than other epochs in u s history however the political violence was a manifestation of creedal passion this paper will examine each of these eras and to understand how political violence emerged from and interacted with the broader reform movements and with society at large during eras of creedal passion the paper will then apply these insights to better understand political violence in the united state today there has been significant violence in our current era of creedal passion already much has been on the political right although there have been notable incidents of political violence on the left as well there have also been a proliferation of just strange events like the comet pizza attack this was not strictly speaking a political event although it was linked to outrageous political rumors but it reflects the general discontent and energy that characterizes eras of creedal passion the attempted bombings of former presidents and other politicians is something new eras of creedal passion have sadly featured assassinations of political leaders the first assassination attempt on a president was against andrew jackson the man was mentally ill but again there was a madness in the air as well the jacksonian era also saw the sudden rise of the anti masonic party after masons murdered a man who threatened to reveal their secret rites eternal flame at jfk s grave photo by tim evanson in the progressive era william mckinley was assassinated and theodore roosevelt was only saved by his extremely long speech folded in his pocket the sixties saw a string of assassinations jfk rfk and martin luther king it is worth remembering and putting things into perspective on this awful day in the 1960s massive urban riots swept through american cities in the progressive era violent bloody confrontations between labor and business we aren t there and i don t think we ll get there but sadly things will get crazier i m trying to figure out how updates events keep overtaking me now we have the horrific news from pittsburgh where a monster with a gun committed the worst act of anti semitism in u s history i love this country it has been amazing for the jewish people my people i am heartsick but i am also heartened that the people of pittsburgh and almost everyone are rallying around their neighbors i would also say that both in responding to the bombings and the synagogue shootings our law enforcement agencies have acted with utter professionalism there is still a commitment to rule of law in this country i ended the initial post above saying things are not as bad as they were in previous eras of creedal passion but that the madness we are in is nowhere near over i stand by that i don t have any hot takes but i ll make this observation at some point some forms of serious gun control will be passed the nra has been winning battles for a very long time eventually it will lose possibly soon this will be to the good there is simply no way to ignore the simple reality that access to firearms enables individuals and small groups to do absolutely terrible things however the forces of creedal passion cut in many different directions it is not simply left or right for some americans gun control threatens a sacred right most gun owners are law abiding and they may grumble but they will obey the law for some however this gun control will be an enormous offense and lead them to more radical positions and yes to violence the only way out of this is through posted by aaron mannes at 9 34 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday october 22 2018 could saudi arabia collapse i used to do middle east not so much anymore i haven t followed the ins and outs of the saudi royals either that s its own real world if you are interested i can send you pointers to people who know this stuff well but i do know this every single arab country without exception is built on sand i don t mean this literally although it seems true in many cases rather i mean that the societies are fragile they are run by unpopular dictators and their economies do not meet the needs of their people all of these states as we saw in the arab spring were dry tinder waiting for a match i write this thinking that we need to consider seriously that the jamal kashoggi affair could bring down the saudi government and replace it with a terrible civil war the saudis themselves are clearly concerned about this smart middle east hands who may not like the saudis much will probably say we use this carefully push them towards reform but we don t want to dump them they are valuable allies if morally dubious ones but hey welcome to the middle east i don t like the saudis much either but this is probably the smart play putting aside this administration s competence to pull of the smart play things can get out of hand the opprobrium heading towards the saudis can set a serious set of cascading events into motion the saudi regime cannot take care of itself it relies heavily on foreign technical support what happens when no one wants to provide that support because of public pressure when the saudi people lose confidence in their corrupt dictatorial regime they are done for i m not saying that this will happen they ve weathered a lot so far but right now nothing is impossible syria the night watch by briton riviere 1840 1920 painted in 1880 a favorite of mine at the wonderful walters art museum in baltimore posted by aaron mannes at 9 30 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday september 18 2018 listening to women learning empathy somehow this rothko captures the mood i am not writing this to advertise myself as some wonderful woke guy who really gets all of the indignities and awfulness that women suffer my hope here is to share my path to at least a glimmer of empathy in the hope that it will help and inform other well meaning men and boys to also be understanding and better so i m writing about me but it isn t about me i m just trying to set the stage first two decades ago when the monica lewinsky scandal was the big news i worked in a small office with two women when we began discussing current affairs i made the argument that perhaps ms lewinsky was just a tiny bit responsible for what had happened my colleagues rounded on me they adamantly stated that this was a situation between a powerful man and a powerless woman it was not her fault i dropped my argument because a light went off in my head both of my colleagues had been in a comparable situation and if that were true it me...
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