What to do with sincere but unpopular beliefs?

The division of labor in political change

Two quick reminders before we get to today’s article. First, we now have Slow Boring quarter zips for sale. And second, we’re having a DC happy hour tomorrow, February 6, at 6pm (details here) cohosted by Emily in Your Phone — please join us if you’re in the area! My basic electoral advice for Democrats is so banal as to, at times, hardly seem worth writing down: They should get on the popular side of political issues rather than the unpopular side and try to raise the salience of their most-popular stances rather than their least-popular ones. This was conventional wisdom in the very…

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