We Are In a New Civil War ... About What Exactly?
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Efforts to explain Trump often rely on complex sociological or economic theories.
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He exploited resentment of trade and the decline in real wages.He was the representative of people who disliked the cultural ascension of women and African-Americans and the diminution of working class white males.And so on.
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"Seinfeld" was not really, as was often said, "a show about nothing."
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Donald Trump has shown that you can use the same approach to create a national crack-up.
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You might take solace in the argument that it's hard to have a real civil war without a real cause - a great question that will be resolved by the outcome.
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People are easily manipulated with appeals to prejudice and paranoia, never more so than when technology has led to massive growth in the industry of commercialized contempt.A country that can have a civil war with no one really knowing what the conflict is about is one in which the muscles of governance are pitifully atrophied.
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A civil war about nothing. Pretty much.
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