New Atlantic essay got me thinking: no free lunch, so what's cost of Trump erasing Obama's legacy and who's paying it?...
Conversation
...I think answer is white cultural capital. It's negative sum: robbing Peter to rob Paul. Peter = white gemeinschaft, Paul=Obama legacy...
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...Obama's overall societal legacy towards a more pluralist polity is basically secure whatever Trump does to his political record. So...
I am far less sanguine. History has unpleasant counterexamples. Reactionaries sometimes win.

