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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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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That's a perceptive analysis. It also seems incredibly optimistic about the health of American civil society — doesn't seem like the left is going to return to a rules-cum-prodcedures-based liberalism for some time.
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And the Lord first made them suffer through a dude whose main job qualification was being tall.
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There is a natural connection between conservative frustration with the liberalization of American institutions (academia, media, arts, etc.) and anti-authoritarian, anti-elitist populism. Trump is a professional iconoclast. I don't see him as a tribal leader.
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Sometimes you need the bull in the china shop to upset the status quo. And the status quo needed to be upset.
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So to compress your argument: that tribe over there loves tribes!
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A large majority of the left (see the Democratic debates) seems intent on casting religious conservatives, in particular, as bigoted and unfit for polite society — and this militant part of the left seems ascendant in their party and completely uninterested in constitutionalism.
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