According to this Slate piece from 2013 (via Radish), it was a deliberate strategy.http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/01/barack_obama_s_second_inaugural_address_the_president_should_declare_war.single.html …
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"Obama needs two things from the GOP: overreaction and charismatic dissenters."pic.twitter.com/VeWYv1TZ79
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@RadishMag piece here https://radishmag.wordpress.com/2013/12/31/the-2013-anti-progress-report/ … -- quotes the paragraph I imaged above -
This 2013 piece is absolutely essential reading. The prediction of the last 12 months is very very close.pic.twitter.com/KclWDSwZbr
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Was it gay marriage?
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4th Estate corruption is especially troubling given 1st amendment & no violent coercion present.
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shit the reason I brought the question up again is I found (the/an) answer, read my other tweet
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@FreeNortherner Trump is raw manifestation of disconnect between Cathedral & Vox Populi. People are openly ridicule cathedral. -
right, but that disconnect is new & happened for a reason. They saw a chance to force the Reps to split.
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They split themselves as well. Happens every 60 years like clockwork. Generational issue.
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They have always had noisy extremists: they use them as a threat while you consolidate permanent victories.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Much of the Dem coalition is based on envy and rage, rather than a cool strategy of dispossession. I think they lost their brakes
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My kids emerged from progressive Cathedral MORE conservative than they entered. One is AltRight, the other LP.
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How appealing is a worldview in which all your success is illegitimate, and all others' failures are your fault?
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I was homeless living in a cardboard box in 1992. Today, I'm a medical software developer.
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