1. I've said before only check on Trump will be courts, unless Dems win congress in 2018. But there is another force: the Resistance
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2. The drama around Trump is personal politics at most infinitesimal level: the mental crumbling of a ruler. But big politics still exists.
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3. Drama of Trump as mad king shouldn't blind us to fact that in modern world there is only one engine of lasting politics: social movements
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4. Politics changes when social movements get large enough that they remake political parties. feminism, LGBTQ, religious right, tea party
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5. Tragedy of Obama era is that he demobilized the social movement that brought him into power, only using it during election season.
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Cults of personality are not quite the same as social movements.
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you'd think a Christian would understand that
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