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thing is dc that the republicans have been running pretty far to the right for a while now---what seems to be happening is the traction of their populist discourse is coming undone, which is reflected in the unmooring of the center from the right within the republican coalition. that's why it seems to me that the republicans are in such trouble----to continue being viable, they have to shift center in a context where they no longer are setting the terms of the grid (you know, folk aren't repeating republican imaginary geography of the political spectrum) but they're locked into a politics that pitches them quite far to the right---within that there's the organizational problem that i think is going to hurt them to their right.
but maybe i'm just optimistic.
i don't mind conservatives, btw--i really don't---but i have alot of trouble with the particular kind of poujadiste conservatism that the republicans have been in bed with since the clinton period.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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