In response to Rob Saldin and Steve Tele’s new book, “Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites,” we held a symposium with the Salvatori Center featuring responses from Now JonRauch on 🦋, Megan McArdle, David Karol, and George Thomas. Read more here! niskanencenter.org/joint-niskanen…

Anti-Trump conservatives didn’t bring down Bernie Sanders. Centrist Democrats did. Rob Saldin and Steven M. Teles respond to @SamuelMoyn’s recent essay for the The New Republic: bit.ly/3ijjADS

3. Teles/Saldin stomped on the claim that Never Trumpers foiled Bernie, arguing much more persuasively that the Democratic Party just doesn't have enough supporters of democratic socialism newrepublic.com/article/158830…

4. Moyn didn't even try to address the Teles/Saldin argument that NT'ers have influence because they provide policy expertise & staff key posts in GOP administrations; run campaigns; and provide ideas and guard the intellectual boundaries of conservatism amazon.com/dp/B085YDTP76/…

Please join the Yale MacMillan Center Center for the Study of Representative Institutions for a virtual event with Rob Saldin & Steven Teles about 'Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites' (@OUPPolitics). Thursday, October 29 @ 4 PM EST Register: tinyurl.com/nevertrumpycri

Big get for UM: Dr. Fauci to headline a Mansfield Lecture in February. #mtnews #COVID19

I always believed Steve Teles & Rob Saldin's prediction that "The Future is Faction," I just expected it would take longer to become this evident. nationalaffairs.com/publications/d…

As Biden heads to Arlington, consider the modesty of Mike Mansfield’s headstone

This is Mike Mansfield, Montana Democrat and Senate Majority Leader. For five years, he courageously told his Democratic President, Lyndon Johnson, on telephone, to his face and elsewhere that he was doing the wrong thing in waging the Vietnam War. Democracy at work.

Related Matti Niskanen report from @KalMunis & University of Montana Professor Rob Saldin on what Democrats can do to be competitive in rural areas niskanencenter.org/gone-country-w…

New and totally worth your time from @niskanencenter's @KalMunis and Rob Saldin: how Dems can compete in deep Red, rural America...SORRY about prior misattribution! niskanencenter.org/gone-country-w…

Delighted to be joining the Niskanen Center team!

Rediscovering Party Factions. | Opinion by Yuval Levin ow.ly/u9wV50EtmhL

NEW REPORT + THREAD: Most middle-class people don’t realize it, but the eventual need for long-term care (LTC) will force many of them to drain their savings and face impoverishment. This is arguably the biggest hole in the American social safety net. niskanencenter.org/how-to-fix-lon…

New Niskanen Center report from Rob Saldin — How To Fix Long-Term Care: The threat to America’s middle class and principles for sustainable reform Learn why past reforms failed and how a smarter approach can put LTC on a sustainable path going forward: niskanencenter.org/how-to-fix-lon…

THREAD: The decline of local news and the nationalization of news culture is threatening to tear our democracy apart. Rob Saldin, @KalMunis, and Richard J. Burke provide 3 ways to revitalize local media so that the U.S. can begin to heal. 1/ niskanencenter.org/local-beats-na…

The decline of local news and the nationalization of news culture is threatening to tear our democracy apart. As McKay Coppins writes, many local news outlets unlikely to win this uphill battle on their own. Some ideas to restore them: niskanencenter.org/local-beats-na…

"It’s not only dubious as a matter of civics to write off the nation’s rural voters—it’s a serious strategic error that imperils Democrats’ ability to hold the Senate, let alone dominate it." Rob Saldin and @KalMunis via Democracy Journal. democracyjournal.org/magazine/64/go…

You know what's missing these days? Builders! We highlight a great, recent piece from Rob Saldin and the Niskanen Center on "the abundance faction". We are Builders (plus a poll!) open.substack.com/pub/teamcommon…