Increasingly think it's wrong to describe moment as on the precipice of crisis. This is the crisis & it at least stretches back to Nov.
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Talk radio and Fox News allowed them to create their own reality, and they have no concept of governance anymore.
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Really it all stems back to Nixon. Reagan was a reaction to Nixon, the rejection of reasonableness and by extension reason.
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Perhaps we are looking at a series of crises—all rooted in the same larger phenomena—that grow more dangerous at each progression.
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this analysis underplays the role of chance. world looks very different with a gore victory in 2000 and resulting blue SCOTUS
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1992 was the first post Cold War election. I do think a certain good faith across partisan divides was needed for Cold War. After? Asymmetry
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In 88', with sense of Cold War at end, not one Dem angled for rejuvenation of space program. No shift envisaged, no telos to bind a culture.
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Jumping in, partially agree, but even further then. Dems weren't close presidentially between 76 and 92.
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I'd start it as 1996. First time in modern history (checking back to 1940) that GOP won House despite fewer votes.
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Then you have 2000, 2012, 2014, 2016 - all occasions where GOP gained power despite getting fewer votes
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Speaker Gingrich was a big one - told his caucus Dems were enemies, not opponents, and not to even talk to them.
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