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Wow, an almost comical article. Right off the bat:
But the question isn’t if the emergence of a populist, demagogic Democratic party would be good, as a question of morals and propriety. The question is whether or not such a thing could win elections.
This guy voted for Barack Obama twice. Here's a hint: the dems have been demagogic and loudly populist for decades.
There are two ways of viewing the Trump Era. The first is as a continuation of what came before in American politics, slightly exaggerated in various ways but basically recognizable as more of the same. The second is as a discontinuity—a new world.
Obviously both are true. Trump did continue some trends that had been present in American political life for years, or decades, or generations, even. But on balance, I find the latter view more helpfully descriptive: Trump extrapolated existing dynamics while also transforming the public’s attitudes toward violence, democracy, and the rule of law. In so doing he created something new, a sort of American Peronism.
Gobbledygook.
The democrats embraced political violence during Trump's first term with their sniggering about people being assaulted leaving his rallies and then later when their street soldiers were allowed to riot all they wanted, Covid or no Covid. As is with all things, liberals always accuse everyone else of doing the stuff they're already doing.
