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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
I still feel foreboding about Trump and will not be dragged into justifying any of the retarded shit he ends up saying and doing.
But my schaudenfreude toward the Democrats is totally untrammeled. I wanted to see them pay a price for their derangements and while I remain ambivalent about the vehicle that meted out this... See more
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to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Then, last but not at all least, there’s the fiscally disastrous (and absurdly named) “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which throughout the week slowly worked its way through the constipated bowels of Congress like a toxic turd destined to be left in the center of the sidewalk of American democracy.