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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Aug 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted b-boy bouiebaisse

      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 …

      Dan McLaughlin added,

      b-boy bouiebaisseVerified account @jbouie
      here’s my question: does trump think that every ethnic/national/racial group has its own “king?” who is the king of the blacks? the king of the italians?
      26 replies 22 retweets 57 likes
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Aug 2019

      It's precisely the cast of mind that made Al Sharpton a prominent figure.

      3 replies 2 retweets 18 likes
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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Aug 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Mat Vaillancourt

      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 …

      Dan McLaughlin added,

      Mat Vaillancourt @MVLibertas
      Makes me think of Tammary Hall. Even if Staten Island is the only NYC borough he won, Trump is the most New Yorker of presidents by far in how he sees the political world. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1164213874788360192 …
      9:42 AM - 21 Aug 2019
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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Aug 2019

          New York, Chicago, and to some extent Los Angeles still run on these terms.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Aug 2019

          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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        4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Aug 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Schism

          I could not recommend it more strongly for that purposehttps://twitter.com/raskolnehkov/status/1164217170433150976 …

          Dan McLaughlin added,

          Schism @raskolnehkov
          Replying to @baseballcrank
          So Bonfire of the Vanities would be the book to read to understand Trump's world?
          4 replies 7 retweets 26 likes
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        5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Aug 2019

          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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        6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Aug 2019

          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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        7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Aug 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Wesley Yang

          This 2-tweet thread touches on a phenomenon that derives from precisely the same parallel thought processhttps://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1162562180694364161 …

          Dan McLaughlin added,

          Wesley Yang @wesyang
          As America becomes more Asian and Hispanic, it becomes less white. Everybody knows that this is part of what drives MAGA. But it also becomes less black. Fewer people recognize that this is part of what drives the Awokening.
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        8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Aug 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Jay Nordlinger

          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 …

          Dan McLaughlin added,

          Jay NordlingerVerified account @jaynordlinger
          Think about the way Trump talks about, and to, Kim, Putin, Erdogan, MBS, et al. And think about the way he talks about, and to, Merkel, Trudeau, the Danish PM, et al. This is very strange in a democratic leader. Triply so for an American.
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