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Marianne Williamson May be domestic cozy candidate, which makes me suspect she may be a couple of years too early, unless tail-end millennials are cozier than I’m estimating The love/healing message is a sharp contrast to wonky save-the-institutions battle between left/far-left
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All the mainstream dems (except maybe Beto?) seem to have a hard political-machine gladiator vibe to them, and none of them seems willing to give up gladiatorial posture to inject dominant healer note. They’re fighting on the left/far-left axis instead of the healer/bruiser axis.
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I don’t think Trump can be beaten in a bruiser-on-bruiser contest, not because the dems can’t brawl as well as him (some seem able, like Harris, Warren, Bernie) but because the base among Democrats is NOT like the Jacksonian-America base backing Trump. They want love, not war.
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I think 2015-16 hardened me enough that I’m curiously able to watch this cycle more dispassionately than I thought I’d be able to. Since I’ve made my peace with the worst-case scenario (Trump 2nd term), it’s a contest between visions of ways out/through/around.
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At a casual glance, 2/3 of the mainstream candidates are Rufus Scrimgeour types. Not in denial like Cornelius Fudge types, but driven by a kind of uninspiringly bleak realism that is preparing to fight without a clear sense of what future they’re fighting for.
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Which means by default they’re fighting for status quo ante. Institutional reactionaries but reactionaries nevertheless. Make Bureaucracy Great Again candidates. Unrock the boat.
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Also seems like AOC squad has lost the plot. Their queen-making energies are directed along left-to-far-left institutional reaction axis. Missed opportunity to shift debate to heal/love. The apparent new ideas they are using to shape the race are really degrees of bureaucracy.
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If only they’d tapped into Marianne Williamson healer-energy (there was a moment with that dance video when it seemed possible) they might have shifted the entire frame for 2020 to a conversation about healing where Trump would have come across as an extended bruising false note.
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Imagine a race with that tenor: everybody is talking healing to an exhausted populace that’s desperate for soothing balm. Trump’s bruising bellicosity resonates with a rapidly shrinking base until it dies as a high-pitched scream of rage, as a cozy healing chill descends.
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