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Jay Elston's avatar

This experiment has been in trouble ever since George Washington led the army into backwoods Pennsylvania to suppress the production of whiskey.

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Salvatore Monella's avatar

Do you people ever fucking quit? The left goes completely off the deep end, corrupting bedrock civic institutions, the courts and the justice system itself, and casting the entire popular vote apparatus into chaos, and when the center calls bullshit and pushes back, suddenly humanity isn’t up to the task of popular governance? Holy fucking shit is that rich. You want to know who cant handle democracy? The left cant, because they/you can’t handle losing. There has to be some other nefarious explanation, some dark forces at work, to explain why people have rejected the bullshit you’re peddling. And you’re still pedaling furiously, completely unable to come to grips with reality. And we’re supposed to take you fucking ghouls seriously? The only ones unable to meet the demands of democracy are the Democrats, because you’re too fucking busy trying to prove that up is down. Its

Only going to get worse for you from here, because despite all your self-anointed, supposed erudition, sophistication, and moral and intellectual superiority, we’re no longer listening. We don’t care what you think, because you’ve made such a complete hash of everything to date. So excuse us if our collective reaction is to turn our backs and tell you to sod off. It’s not a dark turn by the right, you fucking hypocrites - the left is overwhelmingly the dark force in the

Body politic. For fucking fuck’s fucking sake. Assholes.

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Katie's avatar

Thanks for your illustration of dark passions ....

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Salvatore Monella's avatar

I figured someone would point that out. Thankfully, I have a healthy relationship with reality and am an otherwise peaceful person (two qualities noticeably lacking in lefties), so the darkness the left has cast upon this country only surfaces in me when I’m telling Dems where to stick it. Have a pleasant evening

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Katie's avatar

I'm neither fish nor fowl - used to be a Dem but now can't stomach either party. Nonetheless, I too had as a Dem and currently have "a healthy relationship with reality" and was/am a "peaceful person." Is it possible that you paint with too broad a brush, Salvatore? Whatever - you have a lovely evening as well!

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R monahan's avatar

Donald Trump and his semi-fascist MAGA movement seem like invasive transplants from Europe’s bloodlands. How could they take root in American soil? Reread that statement you immediately you discredit yourself with a blatantly biased assertion .

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Ted Clayton's avatar

Which part of it is wrong?

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Leah Kral's avatar

I ran across the Galston book over the weekend, watched the Brookings youtube interview with Galston and Rauch, which was excellent. I'm one chapter in, and loving it. IMHO, it is absolutely the right diagnosis. I think it aligns closely with James Baldwin's thesis as well. I was planning to recommend the book to the Unpopulist to review, and you were miles ahead on this. Thank you for this! Highly recommend.

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Max Kern's avatar

Interesting! This could explain certain developments: “Your brain on revenge looks like your brain on drugs”. We probably have to see what's happening just now as a revenge for ... Yes, we have to find out what the offence was.

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Jim ciccarelli's avatar

The truth is he found a parade and got in front. We were/are a broken people.

Rich in stuff, bankrupt in life

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