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Casey's avatar

Kind of related, but I am strangely comforted by the gains the GOP/Trump made with non-college non-whites. I think conservative gains in those groups serves two functions - 1, it defangs some of the progressive anti-racism narrative which I think is unproductive, and 2, I think it genuinely leads to a dash more racial empathy in conservative circles.

If I had to pick which divide is most existentially dangerous to a democracy, race or education, I'd pick race. If we were hopelessly polarized around race, I could see things really flying apart, but if we see a decrease in racial polarization, I think the parties can re-align in a way that's less existentially bad to the American experiment.

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dysphemistic treadmill's avatar

I would think that the best progressive argument against popularism is that there's a lot of popular support, across the political spectrum, for "throwing progressives from helicopters".

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