Interesting series of tweets from @jbouie on we we locate beginning of current USA political crisis.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/888614354186375168 …
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Useful way to periodize, I think,is to locate problem and then name some pivot points.
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its almost like governments, being paper and power and little else in reality, are just a series of crises
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Right, there's a danger here in stretching the meaning of the word "crisis." The roots of the present moment stretch far back.
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It's the same force, just manifesting itself differently as the cultural context around it changes.
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Yes, but moment that made election of a Trump possible was 9-11-01 & the intense nationalism and xeno/religio-phobia that resulted.
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(among other sociocultural influences that sprang from that moment)
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This is the Dixiecrats that went over to the GOP & the Religious Right finally achieving Authoritarian Populism & maybe more
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I would say
@rickperlstein books describe the roots of the current crisis,@CharlesPPierce Idiot America described when it turbo-chargedThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Gingrich with a nod toward Nixon. Politics as win at all cost, fuck the best interests of the country. Shameless hypocrisy, no principles.
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