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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

The Trump ascendancy is really the most significant and fascinating phenomenon of our time.

Once he scored the upset win, and after the Berkeley-Brooklyn-Brookline axis dried its tears and exited their safe spaces, they swore that all sorts of horrible terrible things were about to happen: the incipient fascism of corporate and government consolidation, the criminalization of dissent and Otherization of half the country, the destruction of all sorts of social precedents, an unleashed torrent of hatred, a totalitarian government and weaponized FBI out to punish dissidents etc etc.

And they were right! But it never crossed their minds that it could be them and their side that would be guilty of committing all these offenses.

There just seems to be something very ugly that happens to humans (most esp humans in groups) when they become convinced that they're opponents are so Evil that anything and everything is justified in defeating them.

It looks like Team Social Justice is delivering the same fate to America that the American military did to Vietnam: they are going to destroy the country in order to save it.

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Brad's avatar

Nate Silver seems to have a habit of reminding people he's no intellectual titan.

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