This is a great sequence of tweets. But it misses several points. For instance, that this was the Democrats' plan: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/785615427913199616 … https://twitter.com/billmon1/status/787098861261189120 …
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and, of course, see also http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/01/barack_obama_s_second_inaugural_address_the_president_should_declare_war.single.html … "If the Republican Party finds itself destabilized right now...
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"... it is in part because the president has already implemented a version of this strategy" (of pushing Republicans extreme in 2012!)
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Trump is no extremist but a non-ideological pragmatist (or, in other words, an unprincipled opportunist). He does have extremist support.
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The Democrats can easily burst the Trumpist bubble by reversing the strategy that created it, and taking his centrist policies.
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i.e. Hillary will Build The Wall. The danger is that even now they can't see that that is a centrist policy
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Wow, I was hoping to engage
@billmon1 , but he just blocked me. I'm genuinely surprised; I thought he was talking mostly good sense.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
I mean the idea @billmon1 has that Trump could be a vehicle for a vaguely fascist takeover is not insane, I'm at least partly in agreement.
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And for NRx, his suggestion of the establishment shutting down democracy to stop the Alt-Right is literally the Best Case Scenario.
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