If you're familiar w/the ethnic & racial politics of New York City in the 1960s-70s-80s, this attitude is completely unsurprising. Trump is not from the lily-white world of Iowa or the two-race world of Alabama. He's from a city of many tribes. Tribes seek out chiefs.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1164211967051128833 …
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It's precisely the cast of mind that made Al Sharpton a prominent figure.
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Mat Vaillancourt
Tammany is gone, but the thought process from above & below still exists: the top manages multiple groups by identifying their leaders & paying/co-opting them, & the bottom seeks protection by having a chief, as Vito Corleone explains to the funeral director.https://twitter.com/MVLibertas/status/1164215233411526656 …
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New York, Chicago, and to some extent Los Angeles still run on these terms.
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So Bonfire of the Vanities would be the book to read to understand Trump's world?
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