07-27-2021, 10:52 AM
(07-27-2021, 09:19 AM)Anthony Wrote: 4 decades? Would you care to try for 7?
And it's still working for them - like a charm.
Four decades -- the neoliberal era of the Skowronek cycle that begins with Reagan and ends with Trump. Republicans have become even more ruthless and reckless in rhetoric.
It can play out, and when it does we are in a very different world. It is now hard to predict how things will be when the invective comes to an end.. well, that is a 1T. The pattern has typically been that nobody sees while it happens but seems all too obvious after the fact. Maybe American politics will again be more collegial, more interested in service than in "winning" some political skirmishes so that the other side is defeated once and forever.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.