The passion of Steve Turley: The world will prove my thesis correct! I will live in a paleocon fantasy land! Just you wait!
I actually like Steve Turley. I’ve gotten a lot from him, in fact. But he’s describing a phenomenon that has already played out. He won’t give up the ghost of 2016–and perceives everything in this frame of reference. He’s smart enough to change course. The pure grifters aren’t.
Turley became a grifters by accident. The grift fit his biases, but he clearly didn’t start out trying to be a grifter.
Steve mistook one effect of radical polarization (“right-wing populism”) for a national mood or long-term governing philosophy. He thus sees it as the only possible outcome.
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