@michaelbd I've been meaning to write about Sam Francis as a prophet of Trumpism. Is there a good biographical essay on him.
@brianmdoherty @michaelbd Hmm. Wasn't Francis pretty instrumental in his view of religion, in mode of James Burnham?
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@HeerJeet@michaelbd Why I used phrase "professed."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet@michaelbd But unless I misquoted him in my review he def used church and moral trad. as rhetorical touchstones.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet@michaelbd Trump wouldn't get or push a pure Burnhamist "managerial counterrev" either. He's kind of Francis minus any 1/2Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet@michaelbd 2/2 hint of book learnin' or real religious or even culturally based traditionalism, in the intellectual sense. -
@brianmdoherty@michaelbd Trump is a remarkably secular -- I'd even say Godless -- man. Yet Bible-thumpers love him.
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