probably be funnier if I left it at that but no OP will deliver after he gets home feeds the cat and ingests a spot of THC forewarning though you shouldn't believe any of it for the usual reasonshttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/967114911401652225?s=19 …
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Unlike past candidates, Trump didn't even try to make a show of adhering to norms And as President, he doesn't seem to have any power to influence them, at all. The Gentry are in open revolt and he's not well-positioned to break them to his will like Reagan or Bush.
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This thread is all over the place, I'm sorry but what did you expect after the original post
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Bush crushed the Gentry with 9/11 fever, up and down. Game over. Seems like Reagan did it by setting half of G2 at the throats of G3 bureaucrats and G2 hippies, I imagine it was savage. The power of the Gentry didn't recover for a generation. Trump is . . . somewhat weaker
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He didn't even bother to pretend to care about anything G1 said which is the cruelest thing he could do to them, he's far too tasteless and tactless for G2, he openly went to war with G3s who are probably the most invested in norms just existing, and G4--aspirational G3s
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Trump's sort-of superpower is that he has no chance of winning the Gentry anyway so he doesn't have to pretend to the norms that are usually used to gently coax them into place when they can't be crushed outright But this is also a crippling weakness in one sense
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Specifically, if you were hoping for Trump to push norms back, this looks like a bad bet He can keep Labor and who knows what Elites want, but Gentry control the narrative and they control the norms Trump didn't crush them, and he didn't split them. So--what's going to change?
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Anyway that's my univariate explanation for the culture war I'm going to cook half a pound of ground beef, share it with Penelope, and pass out
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Presidents likely lost this influence for same reason no pop star after 2000 could acquire anything near the influence over mass culture as the Beatles, Springsteen, Michael Jackson, U2, or Madonna. The Internet & social media fatally fractured prior culture centralized by TV.
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To that point, discontent of G1 today—like Church’s example Jon Stewart—is partly explained by their slow loss of the central cultural influence TV enabled. In 2016, the Internet was finally confirmed as the deadly threat G1 feared.. total collapse of Central Cultural Authority.
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