ok I read the scott piece holy shithttps://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal-for-republicans …
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Is he trying to pretend that Trump wasn't effectively an old school populist coalition?
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Of course. "Populism has some great critiques, have they ever tried doing exactly what they're doing but not getting the message filtered through a hostile press or maybe accepting expert pandemic guidance like 'quarantines and travel restrictions don't work'?"
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Ok well besides democratizing, we don’t have a whole lot of options.
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Pretending that options exist when they don't is a strategy if you want to delay or lull people into complacency. "Well have you even *tried* the Scott Alexander approach?"
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