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Fascinating thread and @newrepublic article from the ever-thoughtful @samuelmoyn. Regarding @dziblatt's "Conservative Dilemma," #LetThemEatTweets shows clearly that it's the Republican Party that's been most transformed by the rise of hyperinequality (and not for the better!). 1/
As Paul & I wrote in our 2010 "Winner-Take-All Politics," both parties have been deeply affected by America's inequality explosion. But that effect and their roles have been very different. 2/
In a nutshell, Democrats have been cross-pressured by the emergence of extreme inequality; Republicans have been radicalized. 3/
How should we understand the relationship between Trump and the evolution of the GOP? Is it a rupture, intensification, more of the same? In response to #LetThemEatTweets, the ever-thoughtful @JohnQuiggin offers a helpful metaphor: phase transition. 1/
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The GOP's gone from a "mixture of many dissolved ingredients, in which the dominant element was the business establishment, and the Trump era party...as a crystallised mass of plutocratic economics, racism and all-round craziness" (@JohnQuiggin). 2/
In the process, "various groups (Blacks and Northeastern liberal Republicans in C20, liberaltarians more recently) have left the Republican coalition in response to its racism and know-nothingism" (@JohnQuiggin). 3/
