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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, January 9, 2025

The Hidden Realignment

 A lot has and should be said about the movement of the college educated into the Democratic Party. It is "bad" if you get people engaged in what James Carville called "Faculty Lounge Politics" about land acknowledgements or whether feminism can properly include trans women. 

However, the hidden strength of this is that Democrats are now the party that votes, regardless of the election. The most important question about 2028 - aside from whether or not we have a free and fair election - is whether a non-Trump MAGA can mobilize his voters. It's a cult of personality and those are very tricky to transfer. It's also another reason why, if American democracy truly dies under Trump, Merrick Garland's fecklessness will be among the leading causes of death.

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