18. China relations are probably the only area where even Trump haters like me would be willing to concede he accomplished something: a reset in an unsatisfactory 2015 equilibrium. What did he accomplish and at what cost? What parts are worth keeping? What costs need addressing?
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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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Americans are too addicted to the drama of the presidency. Just witness democratic jubilation today even in spite of the fact that Biden will be coming in towards a hostile senate/other losses down ballot. Mark my words, but leftist and right wing populism will strike back
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Replace Americans with Humans... Modern Leftists refuse to accept the importance of charisma (I assume bcs that would be a nod towards congenital inequality). So they are constantly being blindsided by and underestimate charismatic opponents.
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