What to do with sincere but unpopular beliefs?
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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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