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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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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