This DeLong rant reminds me of William Burroughs' routine about the dinosaurs. https://archive.fo/gysDb
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Leftism is the answer! Increased leftism! Burroughs nailed the aging reactionary, his angry barks for stronger and harsher medicine, his bone-deep loathing of the enemy. https://www.reddit.com/r/sorceryofthespectacle/comments/7uwzp4/dinosaursby_william_s_burroughs/ …pic.twitter.com/Q7muoDBS70
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Replying to @St_Rev
its annoying because any president gets opposite party winning back congress, and it pretends flavor of backlash against obama had nothing to do with his actions and he was just like bill clinton(he wasnt) on top of that they consider newt gingrich extremist too
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Replying to @turrible_tao @St_Rev
if you go back to any wave or iteration of the right wing in any time they would say its "extreme" if you look at their narrative of it there isnt any actually existing GOP wave they would actually be ok with
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I remember how Ronald Reagan was extreme and his policies were causing a huge explosion in people becoming homeless. What was really going on was that the left had won the battle for deinstitutionalization in the late 1970s, and all the former mental patients were on sidewalks.
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