… this is what it looks like:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Republican Party under Donald Trump has become a party wandering aimlessly in the street talking to itself and responding to itself, and all the rest of us have become the pedestrians trying to avoid that guy.<\/i>\u201d \u2013 Patrick Gaspard<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In other words, the epistemic bubble<\/em><\/a> that so many pundits identified and worried about so many years before I started writing a blog (but I’ve been reading blogs since 2000 or earlier, when the BBSes<\/a> dried up) are now getting to see the endpoint of those worries – a sclerotic Party in which the members are terrified of grabbing the wheel and not grabbing the wheel. (For those with a historical bent, here’s a reference to concerns about epistemic closure, an equivalent term, from 2007.<\/a>)<\/p>\n
I am so glad I’m not a Republican, because the Party sounds like just another chamber in the insane asylum in Hell. A President who can only divide, not lead; he may be, medically speaking, demented; madcap messages and actions such as The Confederacy deserves to be honored!<\/em> (oh, maybe that very first one back in the late 1700s), foolish religious tenets (the Laffer Curve); demands for 100% support of the leader; zombie elected officials who cannot envision being rid of their leader<\/a>; & etc.<\/p>\n
This is toxic team politics at its worst, folks. Study, distill, and put the results in a textbook about how not to run an American political party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
… this is what it looks like: \u201cThe Republican Party under Donald Trump has become a party wandering aimlessly in the street talking to itself and responding to itself, and all the rest of us have become the pedestrians trying to avoid that guy.\u201d \u2013 Patrick Gaspard In other words, \u2026 Continue reading