Clinton crushed IDpol for two decades when he condemned Sista Souljah and he was just a candidate Kennedy killed hats by not wearing a hat Reagan made capitalism so popular that the second highest-grossing film of 1984 told the story of three scientists starting a small busines
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Something very strange happened between 2001, when the Presidency was practically at its apex, and 2016. I don't quite understand what--polycausality??????--and maybe it even started with Nixon. But, the Presidency doesn't really seem to have this kind of influence anymore.
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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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It's time for some game theory
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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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