4/ And related to that, Trump is / was the worst implementer of Trumpism. On the one hand it took Nixon to go to China / it took Trump to take Trumpism front and center, but having done so, he's terrible at it. Thousands of unforced errors.
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15/ But these are all small individual points. The big point is that these battles are won over decades and centuries. Elon Musk has a privately owned fleet of reusable space ships. We're, with space travel, where personal computers were in 1973.
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16/ The Westphalian System is falling apart, and a new distributed phyle system is being born. Online tribes are becoming more meaningful than geography, and this is creating the new reality. Governance will catch up over 50 or 100 years.
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17/ Joe and Kamala, if they win, are like Brezhnev running the USSR. And Brezhnev is a necessary step. You don't move from enthusiasm and success to collapse in a single step. We don't move from Historic Obama to post-America in 8 years. Exhaustion and failure comes first.
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18/ America needs to go through a "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us" phase. We need to go through the metaphorical equivalent of bread lines. We need to see the old system try every one of it's old tricks, and have each of them fail. ...and we're getting there!
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19/ "Racist!" has lost almost all of its power. Cancelling is losing power. Edgelords are the new Elvis. "Repeal 19" is the new "if it's too loud, you're too old".
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20/ The old world is dying, and it's beautiful. Give it a hand on its way out.pic.twitter.com/KVLUE5wUUC
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