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  1. Best question ever: Why is this election even close?

    "Why Trump is Likely to Win Again"

    (From Naked Capitalism.)

    "Why Trump is Likely to Win Again" [Thomas Greene, Noteworthy]. "Trump will not be defeated by educating voters, by exposing his many foibles and inadequacies. Highlighting what's wrong with him is futile; his supporters didn't elect him because they mistook him for a competent administrator or a decent man. They're angry, not stupid. Trump is an agent of disruption — indeed, of revenge. Unfortunately, the coronavirus pandemic has positioned him as a tragic force-multiplier on a scale that few could have predicted, and the result is verging on catastrophic. Still, that might not be enough to prevent his re-election. Workers now sense that economic justice — a condition in which labor and capital recognize and value each other — is permanently out of reach; the class war is over and it was an absolute rout: insatiable parasites control everything now, and even drain us gratuitously, as if exacting reparations for the money and effort they spent taming us. The economy itself, and the institutions protecting it, must be attacked, and actually crippled, to get the attention of the smug patricians in charge. Two decades of appealing to justice, proportion, and common decency have yielded nothing. I'd rather not see four more years of Donald, but I understand the impulse to use him as a cat's paw." ¨• Anger is, of course, completely transgressive inside the Beltway, and in the PMC generally (except as when directed at social inferiors, like servers). But another view is possible–

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