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the tactic is transparent. if the right refers to itself as "us" it follows that obama has to be situated as "not one of us"---all the predicates the mc-cain people have tried to hang on obama function in the same way.
it points once again to the centrality of identity to conservative political language.
and that language--and everything that has been built around it--is what is pulling the republicans into a void.
if they loose this election--and i think they will (and badly)--i think you'll see the republicans undertake a fundamental rethinking of their strategy, of the nature and direction of their coalition.
i think this will be a good thing for the entirety of the american political system.
nothing is less democratic than political claims articulated as matters of identity.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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