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Opinion | This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism
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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
Wesley Yangx.comThis cartoon is ideal when liberals ask me why I don’t believe in democracy.
You already agree, I explain. You’ve just been taught to call democracy (the rule of everyone) “populism,” and oligarchy (the rule of experts) “democracy.” Orwell much
Curtis Yarvinx.com
‘Liberalism’s fatal hypocrisy,’ said Iris, ‘was to rejoice in the virtuous Jills and Jacks, the neighbourhood butchers, bakers and brewers, so as to defend the vile East India Companies, the Facebooks and the Amazons, which know no neighbours, have no partners, respect no moral sentiments and stop at nothing to destroy their competitors. By
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Reminder that Peter Thiel is, to put it mildly, not a cypherpunk https://t.co/aZQ1AUUCOb
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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