This is true but was less so a couple of years ago. At this point I think people silent about the right have either flipped crypto-fascist/alt-lite OR written off that fringe as past redemption. Personally I still think tweet like they’re the 10x bigger threat. https://twitter.com/MarcBodnick/status/1281374596738904064 …
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The only half-good thing I can think of to say about Trumpism is that it helped unmask the true nature of the Chinese state, and that at the great cost of a trade war that’s poised to destroy whatever capacity for global prosperity Covid leaves untouched. Pyrrhic accomplishment.
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There is pragmatic criticism of the loony fringe of Woke (I definitely flipped from vaguely supportive to generally critical) and then there is moral panic sliding into frothing paranoia and full-blown Woke Derangement Syndrome. Makes Trump Derangement Syndrome look like sanity.
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But this stuff is largely done. The culture war has done what history steering it was going to. We are in kicking-and-screaming denial phase. 90% noise and fury signifying nothing. 10% tying up loose ends. This war has been over since 2017. We’re just setting up for the next one.
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If you’ve read this far: the next war is definitely going to be around climate action. Avocado politics versus climate tech sector basically. Profiteer from predictable climate change impact vs try to solve it with innovation.
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