Perhaps we needed a shock jock like Trump to lampoon, distort, and mock insistent liberal pieties with rhetoric so outrageous, so obscene, it would wrench the country back to the center.
Couldn't agree more with this graph, which captures a cause-and-effect other clear thinkers are beginning to realize, too:
"But more than any of this, Trump’s victory is a big fat raspberry to democratic orthodoxies, woke dogma, and identity politics. He is right to divine that America is sick to death of all of it. Perhaps we needed a shock jock like him to lampoon, distort, and mock insistent liberal pieties with rhetoric so outrageous, so obscene, it would wrench the country back to the center. "
I'm also relishing the quick post-election analysis written today by @Joe Klein -- that this was a boys vs. girls mandate. Young white, black, and Hispanic men got sick to death, too,of a kind of reverse sexism to which they've been subjected. I'm a died-in-wool women's libber. I agree that there is so much about traditional notions of manhood that tend toward toxic. But not all of it all the time.
In the UK we were much sadder about Kamala losing, than we were about Hillary, because K seemed so fresh and pure - and we ADORED Coach with his carburettor chat and the tampons. I have Harris Waltz pins and a t shirt (begged from a New York pal) which I thought I would be wearing in a delerium of joy. What to do with them?
Flipping Hunter from black sheep to candidate would be very Kennedy’esque…and might actually work in this climate. Do we know all his secrets now tho? If not, chills for what we don’t know.
Republicans- always the masters of the ‘sound bite’ compliments of Rove and friends- have always been more strategic (aka underhanded) than Dems. Also- just gonna say it - America does NOT want a women for President
Welp, this was the difficult but necessary slap in the face of reality I needed.
Couldn't agree more with this graph, which captures a cause-and-effect other clear thinkers are beginning to realize, too:
"But more than any of this, Trump’s victory is a big fat raspberry to democratic orthodoxies, woke dogma, and identity politics. He is right to divine that America is sick to death of all of it. Perhaps we needed a shock jock like him to lampoon, distort, and mock insistent liberal pieties with rhetoric so outrageous, so obscene, it would wrench the country back to the center. "
I'm also relishing the quick post-election analysis written today by @Joe Klein -- that this was a boys vs. girls mandate. Young white, black, and Hispanic men got sick to death, too,of a kind of reverse sexism to which they've been subjected. I'm a died-in-wool women's libber. I agree that there is so much about traditional notions of manhood that tend toward toxic. But not all of it all the time.
In the UK we were much sadder about Kamala losing, than we were about Hillary, because K seemed so fresh and pure - and we ADORED Coach with his carburettor chat and the tampons. I have Harris Waltz pins and a t shirt (begged from a New York pal) which I thought I would be wearing in a delerium of joy. What to do with them?
Flipping Hunter from black sheep to candidate would be very Kennedy’esque…and might actually work in this climate. Do we know all his secrets now tho? If not, chills for what we don’t know.
Republicans- always the masters of the ‘sound bite’ compliments of Rove and friends- have always been more strategic (aka underhanded) than Dems. Also- just gonna say it - America does NOT want a women for President