The biggest danger to the left is friendly fire. Imagine if we just stopped attacking one another for a few months and turned that energy on Trump instead. Because he is laughing his ass off at this kind of thing.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/case-for-liberalism-tom-cotton-new-york-times-james-bennet.html …
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I don't think it can happen. It seems to me that ultimately the left values purity over progress.
That's a feature of extremism, not liberalism. The extreme right will also tend to care more about orthodoxy than progress.
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The biggest danger to America is friendly fire. Imagine if we just stopped attacking one another for a few months and turned that energy on building instead.
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I don’t think that’s entirely true. Since Reagan, it seems to me that the right in the US has been more effective at holding together a voting coalition. And I don’t know why that is.
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May be because the right is _conservative_, i.e. more of the same, no need to invent, But the left is usually trying for something new. So the left must fight the right, AND invent, & thus dispute amongst itself But interesting PG says "we" for the left!
OK, cf Trump.
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Right wing movements are often driven by identity and nationalism instead of reform and revision. The former is a stronger glue. I wouldn't essentialise 'the left' as the current US progressive zeitgeist, though.
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