The Post-Trump Era

[LiberalArkie]

This is a wonderful moment to be a conservative. For decades now the Republican Party has been groaning under the Reagan orthodoxy, which was right for the 1980s but has become increasingly obsolete. The Reagan worldview was based on the idea that a rising economic tide would lift all boats. But that’s clearly no longer true.

We’ve gone from Rising Tide America to Coming Apart America. Technological change, globalization and social and family breakdown mean that the benefits of growth, to the extent there is growth, are not widely shared.

Republicans sort of recognize this reality, but they are still imprisoned in the Reaganite model. They ask Reaganite questions, propose Reaganite policies and have Reaganite instincts.

Now along comes Donald Trump, an angel of destruction, to blow it all to smithereens. He represents not only a rejection of the existing Reaganite establishment, but also a rejection of Reaganite foreign policy (he is less globalist) and Reaganite domestic policy (he is friendlier to the state).

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/opinion/the-post-trump-era.html?_r=0

[stellanoir]

1. drumpf also

has been artfully compared to Loki . . .

“an irrational psychic factor which acts on the high pressure of civilization like a cyclone and blows it away,”

http://thebaffler.com/blog/donald-trump-trickster-god