Just noticed I've got many new followers. So, hello, new followers. Let me introduce you to what @NewYorker called "the book that predicted Trump." It's been reissued with a new chapter on Trump. Maybe buy it?https://www.amazon.com/Reactionary-Mind-Conservatism-Edmund-Donald/dp/0190692006 …
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You're assuming Trump's victory isn't GOP decline...
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Nah I’m using GOP as shorthand for reaction/conservativism. Do you treat Trump as not reactionary/conservative?
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Oh no, I definitely see him as a reactionary/conservative. And still believe the whole thing is in major decline. Or so I argue in the new edition of the book.
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So you think where you went wrong was in overestimating the degree to which conservatives felt they had won?
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Nope. I think I went wrong in underestimating how weak the Democratic Party was.
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Ah. Well, it’s good you’re making predictions anyway - have you formulated them so as to make your theory falsifiable?
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By the book, dude.
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lol get better at your job and I’ll consider buying the next one, dude
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