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I think what we’re seeing at Columbia and on other elite campuses is a precursor to what we’re going to see at the Democratic convention in Chicago. In 1968 the clashes between the New Left activists and Mayor Richard Daley’s cops were an early marker of the differences between the more-educated and less-educated classes. They were part of the trend that sent working-class voters to the G.O.P.

If there are similar clashes in Chicago this August, the chaos will reinforce Trump’s core law-and-order message. It will make Biden look weak and hapless. Phrases like “from the river to the sea” will be 2024’s version of “defund the police” — a slogan that appeals to activists but alienates lots of other voters.

 

Yeah of course that's what the Trumpfucks want.

"New Left activists" in every variation -- smelly antiwar hippies, uppity civil rights N***rs, bra burning feminists, tree huggers -- they've been shrieking about them for 60 years. BLM, Antifa, LGBTQ locker room trannies, the Latino hordes at the border, etc etc. They're all coming to get you.

 

I don't have any questions. He'll staff his White House poorly, with incompetent people in many spots.

I don't question whether he's a bad guy. He is.

I question whether the "Trump kids are filtering for the kinds of people their dad wants to work with" is news. I don't think it is.

 

The guy that was there 2017-2020.

Point is, it's presented as a development of some sorts.

 

Calling that it was from David Brooks before clicking on the link was the easiest money ever.

 

Who is he? Where is he?

 

There's a difference between filling a staff for ideological purity and demanding specific, personal loyalty to POTUS.
In Trump's klan, you don't qualify if you're the most experienced, ideologically aligned candidate but you fail to display sufficient love and devotion to the lord and savior.

 

Beyond infuriating

 

I agree. I just don’t think it’s news. It be news if for some reason he was selecting people to fill his staff who didn’t agree with him