...and contrast.Trumpism is a performance, @jbouie writes, "of success, projecting an image of wealth and power and urging the public to embrace it as its own — a version of 'The Apprentice' in which the contestants are the American people"https://t.co/XBzB5TAfVP
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) November 5, 2020
First question: is there really any "Trumpism" without Trump? I don't mean in the world, I mean in politics. Trump not in a political race/office is not necessarily a political force. I'd argue he's not a force at all. One lesson I think the GOP learned in the last four years is that you can't be Trump, you can only attach yourself to Trump. What happens when he's no longer there to attach to? And does Lindsay Graham already understand that?A related point that a friend has raised - Trump is likely going to see his followers decrease in number once he’s not president anymore. https://t.co/cSn3o0rGmQ
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 5, 2020
A related point that a friend has raised - Trump is likely going to see his followers decrease in number once he’s not president anymore. https://t.co/cSn3o0rGmQ
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 5, 2020
Everybody's gotta blame somebody; usually, somebody else.A non-Trumpy GOP operative who won some big races last night sends along advice for Dems: "If you want to kill Trump, stop talking about Trump." Tracks with research from Ds who say direct attacks & Lincoln Project-style ads only cause backlash. https://t.co/ZsOwsx0qgk
— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) November 4, 2020
Bingo.The big asterisk to how much attention an ex President Trump can get is things like this - his ability to change chyrons no matter what is going to be very different out of office https://t.co/d2zIR9Aku8
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 6, 2020
Trumpism is not that much different from the Repubican-fascist strategy put in place in the early 1960s, a combination of big money interests with bigots with dictatorial inclinations. Goldwater's campaign of 1964 was a form of it,Nixon's 1968 race was the first to explicitly be constructed on it as was Reagan's, the Bushes' and McCain's. It's no different from how politics in the antebellum period and the gilded-age were. We've had brief periods in which something better gained the upper hand but the worst of our politics is based in lies constructed to be easy to sell to a degraded and ignorant public. Wolf Blitzer has already made the pivot to attacking Democrats again, most of the media never really stopped.
ReplyDeleteThat's why the anti-democratic and anti-truth aspects of the Constitution and the law that has been made of it are so dangerous.