Ashley Frawley

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Senior Editor @Compactmag • Senior Research Fellow @FSI_Europe • Most recent book: Significant Emotions (2024)

patreon.com/AshleyAFrawley Joined September 2011

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The populist moment isn't going to end any time soon.

But if the GOP doesn't change course, Democrats may capitalize on populist anger and channel it toward their own progressive economic agenda.

@alicianieves__ for @compactmag

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www.compactmag.com Republicans Are Losing the Populist Moment Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025 with a second chance to remake American politics.

Ashley Frawley @AshleyAFrawley 2d

Always the same: "That won't happen."

And when it does: "You deserved it."

Rinse, repeat, for every bad idea going.

Dennis Noel Kavanagh Verified account @Jebadoo2 3d

1/ Humanists UK believe they've conducted a "fact check" on a Telegraph piece in which a mother of a trans identifying daughter sets out her fears of the conversion bill.

I intend to defend the mother and her well justified fears in this thread.

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Ashley Frawley @AshleyAFrawley 3d

"The GOP’s activist class is for the first time to the right of its voters, much as the Democrats’ activists have long been to their voters’ left."

@CharlesFLehman on why appealing to the base isn't enough to win elections.

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www.compactmag.com Against Bo French-ism Bo French was just one among the many losers in last Tuesday’s statewide Democratic sweep in Texas.

Ashley Frawley @AshleyAFrawley 4d

"National populism has now had its day in court, and the jury has found its arguments wanting."

@darelmass argues that the midterms mark the beginning of the end of the Trump era in @compactmag

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www.compactmag.com Why Voters Turned Against MAGA It has been nearly twenty years since the United States last experienced a wave election.

Ashley Frawley @AshleyAFrawley 4d

“Instead of a coherent plan to revive manufacturing, we have an arbitrary and erratic tariff regime.

Instead of draining the swamp, Trump has overseen the spread of corruption. The list goes on."

@JohnBJudis on the GOP's midterm defeat @compactmag

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www.compactmag.com Is the Democratic Majority Finally Emerging? In our 2002 book The Emerging Democratic Majority, Ruy Teixeira and I argued that if Democrats continued to gain middle-class professionals and the growing minority vote, while maintaining sufficient...