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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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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Your running theme is whatever absolves conservatism for a GOP president with 90%+ conservative support.
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Oh ffs. Jeez, Dan.
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But their tribes have not always been apparent because Liberals have seen the value of unified support. Conservatives, OTOH, will often turn on anyone who isn't pure enough and fracture the support structure.
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Yeah real mystery, with 86% of Republicans (admittedly a shrinking group) supporting Donald bleeping Trump.
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