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Corey Lewandowski to join CNN

 

Imagine what they'll say if Trump somehow wins.

 

But she read the Wall Street Journal, YF! (And, for the record, I think Clinton is smart, qualified, and capable--and don't think she killed Vince Foster.)

 

Brexit happens. Trump next.

 

Bovada has her at -325; Trump at +250. Want some of that, YF?

 

YF, I don't think it's impossible for Trump to win, not at all, but referendums and elections for national leader posts are way different. The consequences of referendums are more abstract and long-term than a Person A or B to run things choice, so it makes it easier for voters to vent their spleen. The one thing the US election and Brexit DO have in common is that the strongest advocates for radical change are the elderly, specifically, crabby old white people who're frightened and angry about most everything, likely because they're frightened and angry about death.

 

That's an interesting theory. The death part. I read a piece yesterday that theorized that it also, on a psychological level, fuels people's idealization of the past.

 

Seems like an awfully convenient theory: Those people support those policies because those people are so psychologically weak they cling to these fables about the past.

Float a trial balloon about, say, relaxing credential requirements for public schoolteachers. I doubt the ones you'll see freaking out will be at death's door.

 

It was more nuanced and better argued than I'm presenting it. It wasn't about policy, just about extremism, I think.

 

Convenient coincidence that Trump just happens to be in Scotland the morning after the Brexit vote, isn't it?

 

Especially since he supported it and Scots didn't.

 

Even so, I grow weary of these "What's the Matter With Kansas?" bits ...

Megan McArdle did a nice piece the other day about Brexit vis-a-vis the "elite problem" ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-17/britain-s-elites-ignore-the-masses-at-their-peril