7. How should we think about instances of Trump doing what many who detest him felt was the right thing? Should it be regarded as simply "wrong person doing the right thing for the wrong reasons" as Milton Friedman put it, or should we look more skeptically at the "right thing"?
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8. If you believe, as I came to believe as early as July 2017 (6 months in, during the failed ACA “skinny repeal” attempt) that Trump regime was basically ransomware, how do you get it out and prevent future infections? https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/malware-is-choking-the-world …pic.twitter.com/FS0cIQsNbs
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One thing I want to do with this meta thread is not let my unabashed middle-class globalist bougie class snobbery color my cold takes too much. Yep, I’m probably part of the class demonized as “elites,” and do harbor some of the contempt Trumpies sense and react angrily to.
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But I do believe that when I factor all that out, as best I can, we are left with real moral culpability that’s not just a matter of class/culture prejudice. There are crimes against shared humanity here. Remember, plenty of poor working-class whites *didn’t* vote Trump in 2016.
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Final meta point. Trump, despite being a rich, white, native-born, is an outsider lolcow in important circles where I, as foreign-born non-rich brown, am an insider. That this can be true is one of the deep, broad resentments Trump was a messenger for. Just acknowledging that.
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Replying to @MikeWamungu @vgr
I guess how important circles is defined is critical here. How are you defining that?
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Replying to @MikeWamungu @vgr
Because Trump was beloved, in every important circle for decades, including pop culture so I’m confused as to what you mean
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Not really. He was the laughing stock everywhere. You’re confusing media prominence for acceptance.
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Pre-Obama, do you think you had more access/acceptance in rooms than he did?
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Replying to @MikeWamungu @vgr
the point of clarity here, to better understand your point, is what you define to be important circles, insider, and outsider Whether that be acceptance, access, or prominence — material enough to have strong influence
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