re: #26 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus

By the way, my follow-up hot take is that we’ve learned the wrong lesson from the Tea Party: they didn’t succeed because they had solid principles, but the exact opposite: they ran entirely on goading anger versus the “other” and a willingness to import any notions or crackpot statement that maintained that sense of existential threat and corresponding heightened emotion.

…And furthermore, it was only a “win” in the technical sense, since the 50/50 ratio of crackpots and crooks have simply continued the trend of deforming their “beliefs” (ha-ha) to suits their cravings and whims…as have a bunch of the street level “populists” that simply delved deeper into the “alt right” and it’s version of stoked anger and perceived threat.