11-29-2020, 02:33 PM
Let's not forget that the Skowronek cycle is in operation. Donald Trump may not have lost in a landslide, but he did lose. He is the definition of a "disjunctive" President, the Last Hurrah for a political phase at or near the end of its run. Of course one can ascribe his failure as President to his eccentric (to put it as sympathetically as possible) style as a leader, but his neoliberal ideology has begun to lose its appeal to younger adults.
To be sure, except for the Presidential election, 2020 was a status-quo election... but when things are not so bad for electoral canvassing, things could get very bleak for the GOP -- especially when the Democrats come out with new, younger candidates for seats now held by rusty old pols.
To be sure, except for the Presidential election, 2020 was a status-quo election... but when things are not so bad for electoral canvassing, things could get very bleak for the GOP -- especially when the Democrats come out with new, younger candidates for seats now held by rusty old pols.
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.