Damn, I’m racking up the excruciating analysis questions here.
15. To what extent was the fear of a slide into naked authoritarianism (which people like @sarahkendzior kept up a relentless spotlight on) justified, and still requires attention/action?
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27. Did the outcome invalidate the deep-corruption promises of contrarian holy warrior revolutionary fervor on both ends or is this merely a halfway pause before a bernieward swing in 2024?
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28. Will the presidency as a cult of personality give way to a more lowkey role for the office, now that we’ve seen the perils of both too much positive and negative charisma? Can we be done with that charisma malarkey or will we fall for yet another angel-demon king in 2024?
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Amending question 25 a bit. Ryan is right, Biden does not arouse derangement level passions. BDS is really not symmetric with TDS. It’s really TLDS: Trump-loss derangement syndrome. It would exist no matter who he lost to. https://twitter.com/ryanfmason/status/1325170091177226240 …
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29. Trump’s base was people whose life scripts dead-ended in the 1980s when their future went to China and robots. Is the woke base also a dead-end life script of intersectional dense-urban diversity as an end in itself? Has their future too gone elsewhere? Where? Service robots?
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So what is the biggest thing we learned? I think it is this: Big cities have endured for 2500 years, 10 times longer than the United States, and through pandemics 100x bigger. They’re not going anywhere.
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30. What have we learned about the future of cities, since it’s clear natural liberalism lives or dies with cities?
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31. What did we learn about the difference between law and order (both literal and dogwhistle versions) and criminality/corruption? 2x2: low to high law and order vs low to high criminality and corruption
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32. What did/do Trump voters get wrong about the majority of the country?
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I think the "spirit" of anti-establishment Trumpism will remain and grow into a new coalition that can lead to another political breakpoint in 2-4 years, made worse by the liberal delusion that we're in the "clear" now.
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I don't in any way trust the electorate (and the institutions pulling their strings) to reach the kinds of conclusions necessary to create the ideological checks and balances we need to come out of this unscathed.
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