1. Almost exactly a year ago Joe Biden said, "With Donald Trump out of the White House—not a joke—you will see an epiphany occur among many of my Republican friends.” But in fact GOP continues to Trumpify: Trump critics are defenestrated & party rallying behind voter suppression
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3. Even successful presidents normally in modern times step background, only rarely commenting on public events & exercising authority in background. That's not Trump, who continues to set GOP agenda & have pols come to kiss his ring.
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4. To understand Trump's continued dominance of GOP, you have to go back more than a century to figures like Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland and Teddy Roosevelt (popular enough to break GOP in half when he led 3rd party in 1912.)
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5. The Andrew Jackson precedent is particularly striking because Jackson was an untutored, vulgar, bullying, ideologically incoherent racist authoritarian whose cult of personality reshaped his party & re-aligned American politics.
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6. The future of Trumpism after Trump remains an open question. Many remain skeptical that the worldview can outlive the outsized personality. But the Andrew Jackson precedent is worth thinking about. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/never-trump-or-forever-trump?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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the social psychology of pure bullying has I think been underanalyzed in Trump phenom, also why "turning things around on him, like YOU're the snowflake!" stuff was never going to work. We're likely stuck w/him til he dies or bigger better bully comes along.
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Trump is an absolute master of dominance politics -- no one quite like him since Andrew Jackson.
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Cheney and now Ernst seem to be betting that it won't go for ever.
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The Clintons are also an exception.
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