What Lee Drutman thinks about politics
American political scientist; senior fellow at New America and author of Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop (2020), an argument for proportional representation and multiparty democracy in the United States.
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4 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Lee Drutman has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsWhy isn't November the election that matters? Single-member districts are the problem. Primary reform doesn't fix that.
↗“Open the primaries” is the wrong answer to the right questionleedrutman.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Our readingThe governing party always loses popularity, so Democrats' coming wins will not last on their own.
Their wordsThey ignored the most predictable dynamic in democratic politics. The governing party always loses popularity, and public opinion always moves against it.
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsOne-dimensional partisan conflict is authoritarian-friendly territory.
↗The moderation debate fiddles with 2% while democracy’s dimensionality collapsesleedrutman.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsMaybe fielding more centrist candidates wins Democrats a few more elections. Maybe it doesn’t. But either way, the argument is about one or two percentage points. And it does nothing to address the core two-party doom loop wrecking our politics.
↗The moderation debate fiddles with 2% while democracy’s dimensionality collapsesleedrutman.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece