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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
People overestimate the threat of reactionary anti-institutionalism in the first term, but underestimate it in the second term. The first Trump term threatened to be a wrecking ball but landed like a hand-swung sledgehammer in just a few places. The worst damage (SCOTUS capture) was dealt by McConnell’s senate and Federslist society, not Trump. The second term looks like a moderated, mellowed rubber mallet but will likely land like a wrecking ball.
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
what would be an alt example? one that comes to mind is berlusconi who was a short lived buffoon in act one and then a bigger buffoon in act 2, leading to a dramatic increase in corruption and stagnant growth despite puffed out chest thumpery lots of parallels
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