Shared trauma alone cannot found a political community

Evidence

The bill had existed for years because advocates had been working on it for years. Not one advocate. Dozens. Social workers, pediatricians, legal scholars, child welfare organizations, survivors, parliamentarians who had been introducing versions of the legislation since the mid-2000s. The bill did not pass because Bernardo died. It passed because a coalition had built the scaffolding for it to pass, and Bernardo’s death created the political moment that the scaffolding was ready to receive. — , The Rod and the Child, 9048 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Tragic deaths create political windows only where coalitions have pre-built scaffolding — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 9048

Related

• Tragic deaths create political windows only where coalitions have pre-built scaffolding (similarity 0.92)

Broader Connections

• Tragic deaths create political windows only where coalitions have pre-built scaffolding #corroborates (0.85) — , The Rod and the Child, 9048