1. A heuristic for thinking about Trump: for his political acts best not to see him as a freak but as rooted in history of American right.
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7. I connect Trump with larger right-wing anti-democratic trend here: https://newrepublic.com/article/138019/right-giving-democracy …
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I was going to reply with a mention of the history of this notion among American libertarians, but you were very thorough!
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the rise of Fox News and its alternative common sense is not coincidental to rise of the new aristocracy.
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GOP owned White House. 3 historic landslides + GOP was "daddy party." Losing that status hurt & mirrors cultural change.
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I think importance of 1992 as a turning point is probably underrated. It's really when right wing culture of grievance started
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Really even before Clinton's election, with Buchanan campaign, but much more so after, when Republicans for first time 2/
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The GOP is in an apocalyptic frenzy brought on by hallucinatory visions of a demographic Armageddon.
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Not "thought"-a cultural symbol stew - Ike's M I Complex turned out to be the RFK identified TV Media Brain Warper.
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Trump is Roseanne + Dallas , add a sprinkle of Hiraldo, Springer , Limbaugh, C.S.I. crap- nite after nite.... etc. etc.......
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importing 3rd worlders has had a direct result in rising right. Maybe stop for a while??
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