I doubt that pathologizing 1/3 of the US electorate will help, but… well there’s obviously a lot of selective rationality of the “America first” type going on, mixed in with a good deal of… educational deficits, and … ehm… “cultural conservatism”? OH BLOODY HELL IT’S RACISM AND STUPIDITY, WHAT THE FUCK.
Ahem.
But IMHO it is important to note that these are mainly cultural wars, while economically, literally everybody is a market liberal these days, with only minor variations. I’m curious how the predictable fallout of the Trump presidency and probable decline of the Republican Party might pan out. Will there be a change in the two party balance (or, as I like to call it, the ‘double one-party-state’)? A reform of the winer-takes-all electoral system? Or of the campaign donorship system, that cynics have characterized as “the best democracy that money can buy”? WE MIGHT NEVER KNOW BECAUSE THE ORANGE BUFFOON WILL KILL US ALL.
'scuse me.
