Joe Biden for example was elected to the Senate 47 years ago and was continuously returned until he became veep in 2009. He's typical.
Stagnation in Washington is an old story but is perhaps only becoming more visually evident as medical science made it possible for incumbents to dodder on the public stage into their 8th, 9th and possibly 10th decades.
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"There is another danger, this one from the left. And unlike Trump, this one has attained cultural dominance, capturing America's elites ... In the event of a Biden victory, it is hard to imagine it meeting resistance. ... I am here to ring the alarm."
"No one has yet decided on the name for the force that has come to unseat liberalism. Some say it’s 'Social Justice.' The author Rod Dreher has called it 'therapeutic totalitarianism'.”
"At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly describes its mixture of postmodernism, postcolonialism, identity politics, neo-Marxism, critical race theory, intersectionality, and the therapeutic mentality."
This is no ill reflection on them, just an observation on the deplorable cluelessness of mankind overwhelmed by the information revolution. We are most of us in over our heads.
In answering the puzzle of how ACB can be in the running for SCOTUS while having 7 children it may be useful to remember what older generations knew. In big families siblings looked after each other.
Actually "Christian women with large families" weren't freaks but comprised a substantial percentage of the population of what was called Western Civilization, including the Greatest Generation. The challenge is for moderns to equal their survivability of their predecessors.
The news cycle in the short term memory of politics. History is the medium term equivalent. The incalculable current of causality is the longest term and remembers everything.
"Clinton actually did what she accused Trump of doing: She colluded with Russians ... in order to damage Trump’s campaign and cinch the election for herself."
The fact these friends, neighbors and relatives is a mystery to him, explicable only by invoking mass hypnosis. The svengali alternative media has these poor souls in their thrall.
How the alternative media can outpersuade the prestigious, slick and powerful flagships of American journalism is never explained. It's as if the SS Minnow sank the Yamato.
The reason things seem surreal and crazy in Washington is the variance between expectations and outcomes. If we await what actually happens things will be clearer and less crazy.
One of the hallmarks of a complexity crisis is that formerly predictable systems become unpredictable and respond in nonlinear ways. This is true not only of Trump but a host of other events in 2020.
What we call the 2020 phenomenon is the result of the intertwining of everything plus rapid technological change. Nothing acts like it used to. A single man, event or bat can have an unfathomable impact.