Brendan Nyhan
These norms are fragile precisely because, per @emilythorson, they are not formal or legal. And they are hard to restore once breached.
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And even if Trump loses, the exits he could prompt from the party could leave his sympathizers with control of a major party going forward
Trumpism may yet be revealed as cult of personality with no staying power. He has no factional base or issue to realign party over long term
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But no one should be comforted about the point we're at with Trump or what it has revealed about the health of our political system.
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@BrendanNyhan Nightmare scenario for US: Trump & Clinton clinch nominations, then a new scandal or economic crash gives him a chance to win. - Show more
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@BrendanNyhan But he's brought immigration full spotlight again even after 2012 post mortem called for rethinking immigration -
@sgadarian@BrendanNyhan a bunch of responses to the tweet storm: 1. The establishment/elite courted this. They’ve spent decades feeding -
@sgadarian@BrendanNyhan rhetorical red meat to the base, irregardless of how true it was. They didn’t smack down conspiracy theories, etc. -
@sgadarian@BrendanNyhan second, they willfully created a structure in which primary elections matter more & empower the bae. -
@brianros1@BrendanNyhan Some of this is about unintended consequences of rules -
@sgadarian@BrendanNyhan yes, though to be clear, the systemic stuff to which I was referring was mostly gerrymandering. They’ve stuck -
@sgadarian@BrendanNyhan people in districts where their first concern is a primary from the right. Hence the vote no, hope yes caucus. -
@brianros1@BrendanNyhan We always talk about fight or flight but what we've seen from elites this cycle is freezing. Can't or won't act. - Show more
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@BrendanNyhan otoh it could be even scarier to contemplate how someone w/more of a real program could exploit these vulnerabilities -
@BrendanNyhan we live in the age of celebrity -
@BrendanNyhan unless he does well enough to maintain control of his people for another 4 years and do this again in 2020 -
@BrendanNyhan The left presented Obama as the anointed one, and it's he, Obama, who's been sabotaging the US economy http://bit.ly/1WjONG6 -
@BrendanNyhan Video succinct appeal of realdonaldtrump. Obama & Democrats are incompetent, put US in debt!#GOPhttp://bit.ly/1P7Djjb -
@BrendanNyhan (cc@cehoskinson) Obama's cult of personality has turned US into 'a nation of enablers'http://washex.am/1RgeBVx -
@BrendanNyhan Difficult to see how a President Trump would not be impeached in short order. -
@BrendanNyhan True but HRC is doing everything to loose WH!!
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