Trump Can Still Win
“The Democratic Party at its best stands for fairness and freedom. But the politics of today’s left is heavy on social engineering according to group identity. It also, increasingly, stands for the forcible imposition of bizarre cultural norms on hundreds of millions of Americans who want to live and let live but don’t like being told how to speak
... See moreBy embracing Trump in significant numbers, I mean to say, the public has signaled that it is willing to impose the untrammeled relations of social media on the fragile forms of American democracy.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The left has tended to lead the way in mastering new media, aided by its generally younger, tech-savvy supporters. Barack Obama harnessed Facebook in 2008, helping propel him into the White House. Today America’s right is ahead. Mr Trump has cultivated a following among the always-online, meme-sharing, crypto-trading tech community, which is more g... See more
AI unleashes a weird new genre of political communication
both the left and the right claim that if the other gains power it means the end of things as we know it.
What if both are right? What if each is one half of the cayalyst bring the end of modernity, because both are so captured by modernity’s core promise and assumptions?