tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post7731174370256808569..comments2024-03-28T18:59:21.172-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Are special elections like primaries, where turnout does not carry over to general?agnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-75063228199028842472018-04-16T19:14:04.533-04:002018-04-16T19:14:04.533-04:00The gains by the GOP in 1902 were a rare occurrenc...The gains by the GOP in 1902 were a rare occurrence and it definitely doesn't seem like we will be repeating that.<br /><br />Personally, I prefer Tulsi as the standard bearer for the other side. She's simply got more backbone. Plus, integrity and honor in spades. I love how our Anglosphere anti-war friends always talk about the pseudo liberals (particularly in media) and Tulsi is about as far away from that as one can be. Not to mention also lacking the inherent narcissism of the pussy hatters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-55015370032645376652018-04-16T14:47:06.101-04:002018-04-16T14:47:06.101-04:00Correct, my false impression of Trump as McKinley ...Correct, my false impression of Trump as McKinley / TR was based on their positions on the issues -- not where in the cycle they were located. They were similar in their static snapshots, but not in their dynamics -- totally different phases of the political paradigm cycle.<br /><br />McKinley was the trailblazer after an inter-regnum of laissez-faire "Bourbon" Democrats. He was like Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, FDR, and Reagan, setting a whole new paradigm.<br /><br />Trump is more like Carter, coming at the end of one of those paradigms, trying to wrestle it away from the status quo. But doing so within the dominant party of that paradigm (in this case, Reaganite GOP), means he's doomed. Only the opposition party can go hard enough against the status quo that it dislodges the old way of doing things, and institutes a whole new paradigm.<br /><br />More on Trump as Carter:<br /><br />http://akinokure.blogspot.com/2018/01/trump-as-jimmy-carter-of-gop-and-bernie.html<br /><br />It would have been wrong to look at Carter and say, "Wow, a Democrat running *against* the New Deal and Great Society -- and thereby winning back the Solid South! It's a whole new era for the Democrats! GOP BTFO!"<br /><br />In reality, it was a doomed last-ditch effort to internally reform an ossified dominant party. Reagan took what Carter started and took it to a whole new level, able to take a wrecking ball to the old order because he came from the old opposition party and had no vested interest in propping up its winners.<br /><br />That will be Bernie this time around. He'll take the populist / anti-globalist thing that Trump ill-fatedly tried to start, and run with it. He and his party are not beholden to the Pentagon, Chamber of Commerce, and National Association of Manufacturers, or the mega-farms that will not let Trump leave NAFTA or impose tariffs on steel or manufactured goods.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-40717450275437398492018-04-16T14:06:17.241-04:002018-04-16T14:06:17.241-04:00"One of my unpaid interns out there somewhere..."One of my unpaid interns out there somewhere can go through the historical data to test these ideas." <br /><br />Ricky Vaughn, requiescat in pace<br /><br />Anyway, why not add 1902? If I am inferring correctly, you no longer see the Trump presidency as a repeat of McKinley/TR ushering in a new compression?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com