(1/X) People sometimes wonder how things got so crazy in this country. Well, look back at the '90s: for Clinton impeachment, you had Alan Dershowitz on Geraldo arguing against impeachment and Jon Turley arguing for it. All three of course became Trumpers."Dominated” is a bit extreme. Who remembers Turley anymore? He was a clown then, too. Dershowitz is a joke (he was once, can you believe it, respected). Paglia had a best seller (which wasn’t that good, or insightful), so that was her 15 minutes. I’m surprised she’s still around; but not that she’s a Trumper.
On various topics around feminism...
(2/X) the debate was between Camille Paglia and Naomi Wolf. Also both Trumpers now.
An enormous percentage of the self-promoting gasbags of 90s political/"culutural" tv became Trumpers.
There's a reason why things are so fucked up now.
And just to be clear, all of these people were always crazy assholes. They may have positioned themselves as moderate or liberals or whatever but they were always insane assholes. And they dominated a lot of popular discourse.
None of those people were even Elizabeth Warren/AOC adjacent, so their “turn” is no surprise. They were really just reactionary about things the reactionaries were reacting to. Contrarians for the sake of attention. They never dominated popular discourse, any more than Bill Maher ever has.
Things are so fucked up now because things are always so fucked up “now.” Trump has a pointless war in Iran. Kennedy/LBJ/Nixon had Vietnam; and a draft that only college students could easily avoid. Guess who went to war? Dogs and water cannons and sadists with state authority went after protesters in the streets. He’ll, J. Edgar Hoover was running the FBI and keeping his job by blackmailing any official who dared whisper the question: “Why is he still there?”
A handful of blowhards who would reliably pontificate on TeeVee are the reason we have 2026? Sure; and Trump would have easily won the Vietnam war. Look what he did in Venezuela!
I’ll retire to Bedlam….
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