The idea that Trump has finally been vanquished politically, culturally, and on every other level & we can finally move on back into a glorious Obama-era managerial-class normal is just as insane now as it has been the last four years.
The "civic unrest" is just beginning.
The overly-swift jump into BIDEN WON (ANYTHING ELSE IS A CONSPIRACY THEORY) NOW WE WILL BUILD BACK BETTER & MAKE RESETS GREAT AGAIN FAST is a see-through psychological tell. Yrs of denialism & now a kind of rabid clinging to Biden win as faux-evidence their denial was correct.
BIDEN WON - NOW LET'S DO OBAMA THINGS AGAIN FAST FAST FAST QUICKLY NOW. Please. This denialism, as I've said for years, will only make the road even rockier than it has to be in the coming months and years.
Those of us who trying to see the landscape clearly need to stick together. Because the psychic breaks among American elites (in the broad, top 20% sense) that are going to continue to occur as the old institutions and ways melt down is only going to get worse.
The idea that this election is going to calm rather than heighten the deepening divide is so foolish I don't know where to start. The base is based. They know what time it is. We are living in an illusory slipstream between now and inauguration day. Don't let it fool you.
But by the time inauguration day rolls around, I don't think most people will be fooled. You can't paper over what is happening in America. That's why Trump won, of course, in the first place. But establishments on all sides still can't speak or see reality of landscape clearly.
And by these fruits shall you know them: the sooner we raise up a caste of leaders who can talk about the reality of the landscape without fear - whatever their disagreements re what to do about it - the sooner we can actually start to do something about it.
This will often end up being younger people and those without the usual credentials. At the helm of alternative structures built to protect from and take the place of the crumbling institutions we have now, as well as heading up takeovers and reform of some of the old ones.
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🧵If what Fournier says is true it is the first I, the Editor in Chief at @TheBlaze, has heard about it. However, earlier today, we received the following statement from Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), Chairman of the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight (@standwithbarry/@RepLoudermilk):
“An allegation of a Capitol Police officer lying under oath is very serious and must be fully investigated. For this reason, I am releasing these still frames from USCP CCTV video footage, with timestamps, showing the movements of Officer Lazarus on January 6, 2021.”
The root of all the ongoing madness, division, and lack of trust in institutions is that, over the last 7 years, something surfaced from previously unseen depths—and now you either see it or vehemently deny it.
2 big catalysts:
A) The campaign against Trump claiming Russian collusion, etc. by government agencies & actors, politicians & partisan operatives, media, & major institutions.
B) The response to COVID-19 by government agencies & actors, politicians & partisan operatives, media, & institutions.
Special nod also to what’s been exposed in the education system, which is having the same effect.
For many, one or all of the above revealed the deep corruption of the authorities.
For everyone on all sides, each of these revealed how corrupt and evil their opponents are.
"This shift will soon become the most significant change in America in living memory."
Wrote this before Rich Men North of Richmond, Bud Light, Target, Sound of Freedom, etc., but all these ever-increasing examples pale in comparison to what's coming.
THREAD on exciting news and my personal trajectory amidst all the madness.
In 2020, as we hurtled towards election day, @rikkiratliff (champion) had me on with @glennbeck to talk about how the Right had failed to organize and prepare for what was coming.
The response from the audience was overwhelming; it saddened me as I knew it was too late to do any of what was need to change the outcome. When the inevitable happened that November, I knew I needed to stop complaining and just go out and build things I knew were needed.
At time I was a VP at @ClaremontInst, where I founded @theammind w/@jamespoulos & headed up the Fellowship programs, all of which was fostered/made possible by @RpwWilliams.
Still involved! Will meet this yr's Lincoln & Marshall Fellows later this month.
Over a decade ago I spent the better part of three years of my life testing teachers and student in American history nationwide while studying the founding era and my conclusion was: we are screwed.
You can’t/won’t keep republican form of government like this. Not possible.
There’s no coming back anytime soon. The damage is done and baked deep into the system itself. Red states can, should, and must radically reform their entire educational systems. This requires wholly new means of credentialing and teaching teachers.
That’s your only hope.
Generations now have no deep cultural anchors or ties to shared meaning—no clear understanding of their nation’s basic workings or history or anything at all about religion or ideas—except for a smattering of corporate products like video games and TV shows and movies.
You will hear more about this in the coming years. The generation born after the emergence of the iPhone has not even reached adulthood yet. But they aren't telling you much yet about how "the data" reveals an absolute nightmare: the terraforming of children's brain function.
For kids who grow up with unfettered use of screens we are talking about not having normal executive brain function by the time they pass 25. Never mind warped physiological addictions (porn, video games) for some and ideological brain worms for others.
Never mind eyesight problems - whole generations will need glasses, etc. a decade sooner than normal. Look, put it this way: you will soon hear people say "this is far worse than smoking and the like" and anyone decent will want to do something about it.