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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6. Conversely, the real strength of American right since late 1950s has been "suburban warriors" who are permanently mobilized
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7.Suburban warriors: the mix of tupperware & Jack D. Ripper politics that led to Goldwater takeover, 1970s tax revolt, anti-ERA, Tea Party
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As a lifelong suburban resident with a significant collection of Tupperware, I resent the stereotype. Tax revolts funded by very wealthy
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The wealthy still needed middle-class people to vote their way. The money spent would have been wasted if there wasn't a receptive audience.
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It's stereotype that I resent. Suburbs often vote "purple". Vibrant communities. Not necessarily Tea Party strongholds
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Suburbs have been changing, which is one reason more open to progressive politics. But not in 1950s-1980s.
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