I've been meaning to write about Christopher Lasch, but @lehmannchris beat me to the punch (smartly too):https://thebaffler.com/blog/revolt-lasch-bannon-lehmann …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Lotta distinctions-that-aren't-as-different as the author thinks in that piece.
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Replying to @DouthatNYT @HeerJeet
Lasch would have hated Trump, it's true. But Trumpism still partakes of some (debased) Laschian ideas.
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Replying to @DouthatNYT
Left and right populisms obviously overlap on some points (but crucially different on others!)
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Replying to @HeerJeet
No, but it's more than that; there's a reason conservatives like Lasch more than other left-populist authors.
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Replying to @DouthatNYT
In my now-obsolete Lasch essay I was going to talk about his affinity for the Chronicles people (Fleming & Francis).
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Nothing is obsolete than can be repurposed. On a related note Bannon's fingerprints are all over ACA repeal-skepticism right now.
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I did think Bannon was probably behind the Breitbart assault on the new plan but that was just a hunch, not fact-based.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Oh I don't have any "facts." But they're obsolete.
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