tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post8869898267316784308..comments2024-03-27T07:18:39.229-05:00Comments on In Medias Res: How the Fall of Eric Cantor Continues to Prove James Madison Wrong, or Something Like ThatUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-18954878101590387882014-06-13T10:05:38.069-05:002014-06-13T10:05:38.069-05:00Your analysis assumes that only a small faction of...Your analysis assumes that only a small faction of voters is opposed to amnestying illegals. I would suspect that only a smallish number really cares about the issue, alas, but I would say that intense support for amnesty is also limited to a fairly small faction--and perhaps a smaller one in numbers, if far better represented among the various elites.Withywindlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11465319711207992232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-34132611337359453832014-06-11T20:55:06.236-05:002014-06-11T20:55:06.236-05:00I have read Madison in the past as if he were a mo...I have read Madison in the past as if he were a modern libertarian. Lots of factions combined with various veto powers prevents legislatures from doing much. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-72867429024963575722014-06-11T14:51:14.243-05:002014-06-11T14:51:14.243-05:00"Since stopping the kind of immigration refor..."Since stopping the kind of immigration reforms which were actually on the table in Congress was one of candidate Brat's oft-stated goals, that sounds to me like a faction that is "successful," don't you think?"<br /><br />In the short term, yes. But in the long term, the most likely result stopping immigration reform is that Republicans will be less likely to win local, state, and national elections because Hispanic voters in key states will be much more likely to vote for Democrats, which will lead to exactly the immigration reform that this election may have prevented in the next term.<br /><br />Which is my point. What strengthens a faction in the short term ends up weakening it in the long term. Factions are destabilized by the very things that give them short term power--which is how I have always read Federalist #10, though, apparently, you read it differently.<br /><br />Potato, Potahto, I suppose.Michael Austinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112441316581103388noreply@blogger.com