Believe it or not, your gut-certain sense of authenticity and sincerity, evolved in 30-ape troops from 10 million years ago, does not actually extrapolate to huge institutional systems. Systems that assume capacity for emotions like shame AND insincerity in expressing them.
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It’s not that their story wasn’t being heard. They seemed to think it was the only one that had a right to be heard. When you’re used to a narrative monopoly, pluralism feels like censorship.
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Jeez he’s walking the last block jogging over to barriers to shake hands. The instinct for humanizing optics on display here is the polar opposite of trump’s instinct for imperial grandiosity. I can’t recall how Trump did it, but I would guess limo to the footsteps.
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Which is ironic, since Biden represents continuation of an imperial mode of US government but looks like Amtrak Joe, while Trump ran the show like a petty small town council but acted like an emperor
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Kamala Harris family is very Modern Family. They just need to add a gay couple in there to look like a nightmare to Hallmark channel.
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General thought: trad administrations are highly scaled systems with a necessary and meaningful distinction between backend and frontend. There is a minimum necessary theatricality to the front-end. It’s a UX metaphor. This reads as “fakeness” to libertarian-scale imaginations.
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Trump may have slapped his name on skyscrapers but fundamentally didn’t get scale and backends. He managed like a small wealth-management family office. His base wanted small-scale wysiwyg dynamics. National budgets managed like small family budgets etc. All UX, no backend.
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