Well that is an embarassing take to have
The most important thing we can learn from Trump may be how much we were benefitting from representative rather than direct democracy. Shifting just a little closer to direct democracy, in the form of a candidate who did an end run around party bosses, has been a disaster.
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an abstruse and unpopular insight - but accurate.
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Yes I've been thinking that as well. Outsiders clearly too dangerous to have as Presidenthttps://twitter.com/mwiik/status/1276833861071179776 …
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It’s not outside vs inside that he proves or disproves. It’s thinking vs not, incurious vs curious and competent vs incompetent. You can be a political outsider and fall on the right side of these.
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That might be true, but I'm not sure it is something to be learned from Trump, because he was only elected by about 27% of the voting age American population.
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That is, it seems likely to me that greater direct democratic access & participation of the public would have led to a different result. Which you can also see in his odd fear of mail-in ballots.
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How is it a disaster? He built the greatest economy the couhtry has had, especially for lower income families, he is taking on China and trade. He has reformed criminal justice.
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