If you're familiar w/the ethnic & racial politics of New York City in the 1960s-70s-80s, this attitude is completely unsurprising. Trump is not from the lily-white world of Iowa or the two-race world of Alabama. He's from a city of many tribes. Tribes seek out chiefs.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1164211967051128833 …
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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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Trump was/is much more influenced by the world of ny real estate. (Money talks, if you get away with it it’s ok, corruption is just part of business) and it was Lilly white. He was no typical NYer and he saw things through a much different prism than most NYers.
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The other developers were white, but to get anything done, you needed to work with other constituencies, from the Mob to immigrant labor.
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