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Monthly Archives: March 2016
ABC: The Roots of Trumpismo
In “The Roots of Trumpismo” (clever, real clever guys), the ABC News folks are finally trying to get a concrete understanding of the Sociology of Trump: The answer, according to statistical analysis of an array of possible explanations tested in … Continue reading
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Bernie’s Boys vs. Trump
The opening paragraph of a NYT piece titled “Covering Donald Trump, and Witnessing the Danger Up Close”: The first time I felt unsafe at a Trump event was a week ago in New Orleans. I hadn’t been on the Trump … Continue reading
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Trump Launches Physical Incarnation of Culture Wars
So… it begins. Bernie Brothers, BLM activists, headscarved Muslim women, folks waving the Mexican flag, OWS types, and white hipsters, holding up their ‘Mein Trumpf’ signs while tearing apart pro-Trump signs, storming the stage, swinging fists, swearing like sailors, clashing … Continue reading
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Hannah Arendt & Identity Politics
From a brief article on Hannah Arendt in the LA Review of Books: The most famous case of Arendt misunderstanding — possibly willfully — the political effects of identity was on display in the controversy overEichmann in Jerusalem. In this … Continue reading
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Politico: Could the West Survive a President Trump?
“Could the West Survive a President Trump?” screams a Politico headline. No, not the American West… but the ‘Western World’ itself! PARIS — After a long period of being in denial about the strange events across the pond, many European … Continue reading
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Rubio: Last Stand = The Race Card
Candidates take moral ‘high roads’ until, of course, their own political existence is threatened, at which point it suddenly becomes okay for them to act like DT. It’s similar to how, as DT himself pointed out yesterday in his CNN … Continue reading
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Reuters: Ohio Blue-Collar Democrats for Trump
Michigan was a bell weather state in this primary season: Trump won it and (to everyone’s surprise) Sanders won it, despite the latter being an astonishing 30 pts behind in the polls leading into election day. Ohio is the next … Continue reading
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Paglia on DT
A Salon reader asks iconoclast Camille Paglia: I’m dying for an update from you on Donald Trump. Last summer you called him “not a president” and a “carnival barker.” Do you still feel the same? If you loved Trump, would … Continue reading
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