"But thoughtful, heterodox folks on the Left have a unique lament: You guys on the Right are lucky...There’s no ideological enforcement. You can actually have these fights out. On our side, step out of line and you get shot." True, on the Right there is no longer ideological enforcement. There is just loyalty enforcement. Criticize Him and you get shot.
RE: your take on Chris Murphy’s rumination’s, I think it is just not true that Republicans and other non-democrats have some wonderful open discussion going on about how to cure the malaise that Murphy is trying to identify and understand. There is almost nothing wrong with America that a Trump-led Republican Party can’t and won’t make worse. That’s because Trump is not involved in any of those discussions except from the point of view of what people, countries, and entire American alliances owe him, or his completely disjointed and largely unhinged sense of who is being suckered by who. He cares not a white for “the common man” except as fodder for donations and adoration. And there is almost nothing in the Project 2025 playbook that would cure the malaise unless you define the malaise as arising from a a lack authoritarian leadership in America.
Working-class people have a lot to complain about in the effects that 40+ years of Reaganomic Trickle-down Neoliberal Globalization. But all of the Republican cures being espoused by the Party of Trump are built on thuggish suppression and oppression of fellow Americans defined as enemies of Trump.
The Harris Campaign and the Convention has been all about engaging in the issues around disillusionment and alienation for heartland Americans. The inability to hear or see this speaks more about one’s own ideological filters and b pioneers than it does about this election and the choices America now has in moving forward to make things better for all Americans.
One thing that struck me was the Fed using cooked data to make key policy decision. Perhaps cooked job data was offset by cooked inflation data but why is the Fed with their substantial research capacity using cooked data at all. Or are they? They could just be pretending to us while relying on their own research and not telling us. Either way it is a problem.
"But thoughtful, heterodox folks on the Left have a unique lament: You guys on the Right are lucky...There’s no ideological enforcement. You can actually have these fights out. On our side, step out of line and you get shot." True, on the Right there is no longer ideological enforcement. There is just loyalty enforcement. Criticize Him and you get shot.
I also thought that! Although they "at least" allow people to crawl back, like JDVance who used to harshly criticise Trump and now stands with him.
What I was thinking entirely. All this woke shit? It's what was going on on the other side during the Reagan reign
RE: your take on Chris Murphy’s rumination’s, I think it is just not true that Republicans and other non-democrats have some wonderful open discussion going on about how to cure the malaise that Murphy is trying to identify and understand. There is almost nothing wrong with America that a Trump-led Republican Party can’t and won’t make worse. That’s because Trump is not involved in any of those discussions except from the point of view of what people, countries, and entire American alliances owe him, or his completely disjointed and largely unhinged sense of who is being suckered by who. He cares not a white for “the common man” except as fodder for donations and adoration. And there is almost nothing in the Project 2025 playbook that would cure the malaise unless you define the malaise as arising from a a lack authoritarian leadership in America.
Working-class people have a lot to complain about in the effects that 40+ years of Reaganomic Trickle-down Neoliberal Globalization. But all of the Republican cures being espoused by the Party of Trump are built on thuggish suppression and oppression of fellow Americans defined as enemies of Trump.
The Harris Campaign and the Convention has been all about engaging in the issues around disillusionment and alienation for heartland Americans. The inability to hear or see this speaks more about one’s own ideological filters and b pioneers than it does about this election and the choices America now has in moving forward to make things better for all Americans.
This is one time when Steve Bannon is correct.
One thing that struck me was the Fed using cooked data to make key policy decision. Perhaps cooked job data was offset by cooked inflation data but why is the Fed with their substantial research capacity using cooked data at all. Or are they? They could just be pretending to us while relying on their own research and not telling us. Either way it is a problem.