Yeah, I think a lot of people miss that Donald Trump is a huge motivator for politics in America right now in a way that everyone’s going to struggle with when he’s gone.
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Yeah. It sounds like a joke, but we are GOING to need to keep his memory alive. It's going to be important. If the broader public and popular memory are going to absorb the lesson, we have to make sure Trump becomes the canonical villain he needs to be. Little kids need to know who he was.
aug 27, 2025, 1:03 pm • 6 0 • view
We don't have THAT many of those! I guess it's natural that any national mythology has more heroes than villains. But what have we got? Benedict Arnold? Jeff Davis? Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon (not so much Studebaker and television). Various more niche figures (Trump progenitor Roy Cohn being one!)
aug 27, 2025, 1:10 pm • 3 0 • view
There is a world before Trump, a world during Trump, and a world after Trump and that's broken many peoples' worldviews.
aug 27, 2025, 1:09 pm • 0 0 • view
The baked in advantages in the midterms are known, the issue is the upcoming general. And the energy right now will be behind pure partisans who'll be loud and obstructionist. My hot take: the 2026 cycle primary to set the tone (and fear) in incumbents is more important than the pres candidate.
aug 27, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view