Yes, this is an excellent point. This is fertile soil for serious party-wide splits. Republicans would do well to cut their losses right now. Those who cling on will soon find themselves looking shri… (View Post)

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Underrated post, spot on. There is no core ideology, there is no inheritance of the mantle, no succession principle. Trumpism is a cult of personality. Stripped of the state apparatus, personality cu… (View Post)

Wider point: the safety of the world resting on any one person is always disturbing. Trump, in his unabashed lunacy, has shone a light on something that some of us have long feared: we are one mini-s… (View Post)

Well, your levels of persuasion notwithstanding, you can't count those who refuse to exercise their voting rights in either column. And it doesn't strike me as a very confident stance. But … (View Post)