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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      If Trump loses, there will be a clear test of the popular remote diagnosis that he is a narcissistic psycho with no soul. If he grows a beard to process, he has a soul. If he doesn’t, he doesn’t. I don’t make the rules. The beard test is bipartisan and global.https://twitter.com/LibertyRPF/status/1324145916853575680 …

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      You can't shame someone who doesn't have a conscience. They should teach the basics of sociopathy and malignant narcissism in high school so fewer people fail to recognize the signs.
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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Litigiousness goes with trumpcore aesthetic like PB&J. Though US as a whole has a rep for litigiousness, it is not a randomly distributed trait. I think it’s a Jacksonian-America trait. The language points to a subculture: “So sue me” “See you in court” “It’s perfectly legal”

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Perhaps the clearest example of it is sovereign citizen conspiracy theories, ideas that income tax is illegal, etc. My theory is that these are self-soothing tales of agency poor white males began telling themselves in the 1830s after getting a taste of power under Jackson.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      You grasp at legalistic notions of agency when you’re admitted into society under the letter of the law but not the spirit. When you’re granted frustrating access to the nominal power but denied access to the inner rings. Trump has that same feeling at a fractally higher level.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Basically, starting in 1830s a *national* class emerged in the US whose identity was built around suing richer whites and punching down at still-disenfranchised blacks and browns. A superset of poor-white post-civil war southerner.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      In case you’re not familiar with this line of argument it’s the one Walter Russell Mead has been developing for decades https://pmachala.people.amherst.edu/Current%20Politics/Case%20Studies%20in%20American%20Diplomacy%20-The%20Readings%20FOR%20the%20FIRST%20and%20SECOND%20Class/Mead,%20The%20Jacksonian%20Tradition.htm … https://www.hudson.org/research/13258-the-jacksonian-revolt … https://www.hudson.org/research/13010-donald-trump-s-jacksonian-revolt …

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Sling down no doomscroll tv 😩 Also gotta reread this thinghttps://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/ …

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Before Sling crashed, token Republican on CNN was arguing that the biggest outcome is rejection of far left. I kinda agree. If it had been Bernie on the ballot with AOC cheerleading, Trump would likely have won in a landslide. This is a major bourgeoisie warning shot across bows.

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    9. Good Lord, What Now?‏ @ArchivesBoy Nov 4
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      I tend to agree about Bernie, but this wasn't exactly a triumph for centrism either. The party likely goes left from here.

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    10. stephen‏ @Stephen_Corwin Nov 4
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      The left right spectrum isn’t the issue. People jump all over for the right candidate. Messaging is the problem. Run a candidate that rejects establishment dems, supports a minimum standard of living, and acknowledges problems with big gov—they’ll do fine.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Replying to @Stephen_Corwin @ArchivesBoy

      You can’t untangle them that easily, and concerns and imaginations go together. “Socialism” is a word that evokes very powerful associations and even traumas for people around the world.

      5:48 PM - 4 Nov 2020
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          Yup, that’s what I’m saying. It’s not the policy that triggers people, it’s the messaging. Unfortunately, anything a democrat does is going to be branded socialism by someone. Which is why I think a democrat that hates other democrats would be a good start.

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