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(Matt Taibbi knows how to write. Too bad he doesn't know how to think.)
The average American likes meat, sports, money, porn, cars, cartoons,
and shopping. Less popular: socialism, privilege-checking, and the world
ending in 10 years. Ironically, perhaps because of Trump, Democratic
Party rhetoric in 2020 is relentlessly negative about the American
experience. Every speech is a horror story about synagogue massacres or
people dying without insulin or atrocities at the border. Republicans
who used to complain about liberals “apologizing for America” were being
silly, but 2020 Democrats sound like escapees from the Killing Fields.
Ronald Reagan once took working-class voters away from Democrats by
offering permission to be proud of the flag. Trump offers permission to
occupy the statistical American mean: out of shape, suffering from gas,
poorly read, anti-intellectual, treasuring things above meaning, and
hiding an awful credit history.
full:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/taibbi-trump-2020-be-very-afraid-872299/
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