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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      When an institution is this sclerotic only charismatic power can renew it. Unfortunately of the two people with any charisma, one is an old caricature leftie out of Seinfeld and the other is a young firebrand leftie blinded by moral self-certainty riding a thirst-trap premium.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      I do appreciate the decade-long spotlight Bernie and AOC have maintained on the powder-keg issue of inequality but ceding broad political-moral authority to them while trying to maintain structural integrity under moderate leadership is a one-time, sharply time-limited option.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      If Biden wins, they’ve got 4 years to find a better equilibrium. If he loses, it’s game over now. Tactical skill at navigating the peculiarities of US politics can substitute for a vacuum of ideas only for so long. Either moderates come up with real ideas now, or the D’s splinter

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      AOC is to the #Occupy descended left as Ted Cruz is to tea party politics. The interesting diff is that the tea party created an opening for a kind of populist hijacking by Trump. I don’t see that happening on the left. The US just doesn’t like true left populism.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      To her credit, much as I dislike her politics, AOC seems to have higher integrity relative to Cruz, but more idealistic fervor. Absent Trumpist entryism, Cruz could legit have won 2016. But I somehow think AOC can’t ride her twitch-stream to the WH without going more moderate.

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      Even without the results, the fact that it’s this close in the middle of a disastrous pandemic and with such an extreme cartoon villain as incumbent means the Great American People have spoken and showed who they are on average: mildly alt-lite fascism-curious crypto monarchists.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      I am dismayed by that basic revealed preference of course, but it is what it is, and a democratic truth. Even Biden’s likely popular vote margin (win or lose) won’t repudiate it. The US has always been a fascism-lite country but is now open about it. Glad that’s been cleared up.

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    8. Scott's 250‏ @MScottDeMichele Nov 4
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      Wouldn't expect you to use the term Fascist lightly. How would you define it?

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      Homogeneous identity as true north for political stance

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    10. Scott's 250‏ @MScottDeMichele Nov 4
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      Trying to understand. Just white identitarianism?

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      Not necessarily white. Can be any race (I think we saw a Latino lite flex in Florida). Can even be class-based like “small business-owner class.” In India fascistic tendencies are mostly the traditional merchant class around religion.

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