The dirty little secret of this expectation is that the catastrophe will FINALLY change everybody else, and get them to agree with me.I’m not actually quite as sour as this headline....but am struck by how people always seem to trick themselves into believing that catastrophe will have a cleaning effect on politics and we’ll emerge stronger. https://t.co/cmTVeD7OuH— John F. Harris (@harrispolitico) April 23, 2020
Call it the Susan Sarandon Syndrome.
It's a variation on the insane romanticism about revolutions which have almost a 100% record of replacing something bad with something about as bad if not worse. Bernie Sanders' "revolution" won't ever happen but if it did you can bet the first priority would have been the retention of power.
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