Shouid have said the last short act, not scene. In front of the polling place with both major parties promoting their candidates. (Were their any third parties?)
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Replying to @SWGoldman @gabrielwinant
No anti-Semite, but Mr. Conservative an excellent anti New Deal restoration veep candidate.
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Yeah, the point of the coda is that everything is going back to normal after the Lindbergh interlude. Sort of like some post-Trump restoration fantasies among centrists.
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Centrist fantasies? I incline to a modified Gattopardo view: much will change so that most things can remain the same. The counter-fantasy is that crisis-induced radical change ipso facto yields greater justice. Forgive me my doubts.
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I don't think a crisis will bring greater justice -- much more likely to induce a new dark age of fascism. Fantasy is the idea that (as Joe Biden claims) GOP will go back to normal after Trump (or that GOP would go with Taft after Lindbergh instead of, say, Westbrook Pegler)
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Never underestimate the allure of American sentimentality--the return to normalcy is the secret dream of US fascists, who change channel to The Bachelor when they tire of The Apprentice.
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"Return to normality" is a very potent political pitch. It's why Biden is the nominee and will help him win the White House. But it's not a very realistic political program. Harding's "normalcy" proved just an interlude between crises.
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This is a period of maximal uncertainty. No "political program" can possibly be "realistic," much less convincing. Better to pitch "normalcy" now, improvise later as necessary.
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Agreed -- it's the most powerful political pitch at the moment. Even FDR ran on a kind of normality platform in 1932 (promising to cut the debt!). But I want to underscore that the normality isn't on the table & next president will be governing over a systemic crisis.
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