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In a decade nudge-based “centrism” and “smart regulation” is going to be cool again, and that’s when people who switched from radcentrism to radleftism to keep their brands vibrant (Jedidiah Purdy, a king of centrism when I was in law school) will switch back.
The marketplace of ideas is still a market, and most rational actors respond to market forces. The rest of us, the irrational ones, just take it easy and rest our eyes to better avoid damage from the fumes of a world that’s always been aflame
Some physically attractive Democrat who falls into the right stereotyped categories will lean right to win elections at all costs — the best Democrats are Republicans, deep down, and a smart Republican like HRC or EW knows when to go blue — and it will be Clinton third way 2.0
I don’t care one way or the other, but this is how history works...the spirit of the now everyone espouses because it’s simply what must be said is always dead and gone, and the people to whom tomorrow belongs are always worse and more cunning than you can possibly imagine
there’s a better than 0% chance that the hypothetical Democrat I’m speaking of will be some shrewd patrician who Dolezals their mutable characteristics (gender, sexual orientation, disability), builds a paper trail to prevent discovery, then runs to the right of John Wayne
And people will rush to celebrate this puritanical-yet-woke war hawk because they’ll give them that old American “crush-the-reds” and “tax-the-poor” wine in a shiny new bottle that is reinforced on all sides from simplistic identity-patronage assaults.
It never goes very far away. Still has most of the parliamentary & almost all of the municipal Labour party in the UK, + Liberal Dribblecrats & sundryother opportunists.
That’s exactly right. Many of these people secretly crave the push back to the center. The center is the safest place to be
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