1. McCain's funeral was very moving and appropriately political (as befits the funeral of a major political figure). But it also reflected the weakness of a certain type of politics, Decency Resistance or Ancien Régime Resistance.
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11. The failure of the elite to come to terms with its own responsibility vitiates everything at the funeral -- Meghan McCain's righteous anger, Obama's eloquent thoughtfulness, Bush's cutesy candy-sharing.
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12. The message of the funeral was "once we get rid of Trump, the grown-ups can take over again." Sorry, won't work. You had your chance and you muffed it.
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13. "If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" -- Anton Chigurh. That's the question we have to ask the establishment. The rules they followed brought us here, and now they want us to return to those rules.
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14. The American elite really thinks they can subtweet their way out of a fascist crisis. It's not so easy, my friends.
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15. John McCain was admirably blunt & forthright. We owe it to his memory to be no less honest in our appraisal of him. His complex legacy is that he both helped create Trump & resisted him:https://newrepublic.com/article/150895/john-mccain-dead-obituary-nationalist-vision-eclipsed-trumps …
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you misspelled "reagan to obama"
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Super helpful. Thanks for suggesting solutions to everything. We’ll get right on it...
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Exactly, the funeral omitted acknowledging elite responsibility for creating the conditions for Trump’s ascendancy & the insidious death grip on our political economy of elite: Regulatory capture; Journalistic capture; Academic capture; Judiciary capture ...
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and how exactly would that be communicated at a funeral?
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people passed notes
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