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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I was, but how would we measure whether Trumpism fades away? I couldn't come up with useful metrics.
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There is a substantial conservative fringe in this country, and it supports Trump. It birthed the Tea Party a dozen years ago, Newt Gingrich tapped into years ago, and Pynchon was describing it fifty-five years ago when he invented the Peter Pinguid Society in The Crying of Lot 49. Its form changes -- today, Trump is highly sympathetic to Russia, so his supporters, if working quite so hard to do Russia's bidding, at the very least know to scoff at other people's concerns about Russia, something that has flipped 180 degrees since 1965. One key to it is the constant one-upsmanship, the belief that the right has been complacent and co-opted and needs to be disrupted. The counter-revolution keeps devouring its young.
If you want to pretend that yesterday was just about Trump, and that whatever comes next is something completely different, go ahead. Yesterday's mob were not asking for lower tax rates and less red tape for small businesses.
