Punctuated Equilibrium and the Politics of Sudden Change

In his immortal podcast Revolutions, Mike Duncan coined the term “The Entropy of Victory” to refer to the historical tendency for post revolutionary groups to fall into disorganization. After attaining a long sought victory, the… The Entropy of Victory: Navigating a New World in Zohran’s New York.

Now that we’ve shifted the political reality, the eyes of the country—even the world—are on us. What will we do with that power? What must we do? 

For 40 days, Senate Democrats held out, but in the end they caved in exchange for a false promise of a future vote they will surely lose. They simply rolled over and surrendered. All of the talk of saving healthcare subsidies was empty words. The shutdown, and the ways it negatively impacted people’s lives, was for nothing.

Despite her anti-Trump bonafides, Maine voters really, really don’t want Janet Mills to run for Senate. Why is that?