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I use you and George Will as examples of this all the time. Brilliant guys, but this is a street fight. We need to be street fighters. This is going to be determined on social media and getting people out to vote. It’s not going to be debated on the Upper East Side or Upper West Side.

David Brooks • My Unsettling Interview With Steve Bannon

and self-governing people would become ungovernable to colonizers.

Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life

Essentialists are quick to use stereotypes to categorize vast swaths of people.

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Playing all sides against one another to create chaos was a way to ensure that the Kremlin held all the puppets’ strings while using disinformation to remake reality.

Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

This may be the most ominous signal of all: To most Americans, the survival of democracy itself is not as essential as making sure their side comes out on top.

Neil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

Younger generations, meanwhile, are souring on democracy.

Neil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

The word “thumotic” here refers to Harvey Mansfield’s use of the Greek word “thumos” to mean a sort of political passion and drive. Francis Fukuyama spelled it “thymos”, and even predicted in 1992 that Donald Trump might be the perfect embodiment of Americans’ thymotic urge to tear down the liberal establishment.

Lyons thus sees Trumpism as a sort ... See more

Noah Smith • This thing will fail

La construction d’un champ politique clivé non pas entre des progressistes (ou des « libéraux », au sens américain du terme) plus ou moins radicaux, et des conservateurs plus ou moins décidés, entre l’électorat du parti démocrate et celui du parti républicain (ou, en termes européens, entre la gauche et la droite), mais entre un centre modéré et ra

Antoine Chollet • L'antipopulisme ou la nouvelle haine de la démocratie (French Edition)

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