It's precisely the cast of mind that made Al Sharpton a prominent figure.
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Tammany is gone, but the thought process from above & below still exists: the top manages multiple groups by identifying their leaders & paying/co-opting them, & the bottom seeks protection by having a chief, as Vito Corleone explains to the funeral director.https://twitter.com/MVLibertas/status/1164215233411526656 …
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New York, Chicago, and to some extent Los Angeles still run on these terms.
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It is, again, an attitude that promotes collectivism at the expense of the individual, since getting the ethnic/racial chieftains in a room remains an elitist model, a la LBJ: http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2012/10/politics_barack_6.php …
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I could not recommend it more strongly for that purposehttps://twitter.com/raskolnehkov/status/1164217170433150976 …
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All of this comes back to my running themes: Republicans are historically the party of Lincolnesque classical liberalism; Democrats are a collection of tribes; Trump's worldview is drawn from the latter; the post-Trump challenge is which path the GOP wants to follow.
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The urge to follow Trump comes from too much of the current GOP base seeing politics devolve to a world of warring tribes & deciding the answer is to get their own head-man. I continue to believe this is a losing strategy & misreads the value of having a party that rejects that.
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This 2-tweet thread touches on a phenomenon that derives from precisely the same parallel thought processhttps://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1162562180694364161 …
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But again, it all makes sense if you see him as the leader of a tribe negotiating with other leaders of other tribes, more or less without regard to how they got to be leadershttps://twitter.com/jaynordlinger/status/1164221278225649664 …
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I am a member of the American Tribe. We need a new chief.
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Or maybe even limited government and especially a president of limited powers
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