16. We saw a long-nurtured apparatus produce fait-accompli outcomes in the judiciary: the Federalist society had a mission accomplished moment under Trump. What did we learn? 17. What enabling archetypes besides Trump emerged as important? McConnell, Bannon, Miller... who else?
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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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Simply a pause in my opinion. The mix that we have gotten(Biden presidency, likely republican senate, thin edge dem house majority) won’t be able to resolve most of the major issues of the day, this stoking a populist revolt in ‘24. I expect a competitive primary for dems + repub
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Two big learnings in my opinion: 1) Dems at large are stuck in 1996 when "digital" wasn't a medium. They need a much better digital ground game - R's figured this out for 2016.
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2) Dems need to figure out how to better define and communicate their platform. The GOP/Trump didn't even have a national platform for 2020 and was still competitive.
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