Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

Not an argument. Its an admission of not having an argument. All democratic projects always fail. They’re failing now. We might say the same for all oligarchic projects.

China has made the case. Fascism won. Ethnocentric, nationalist, state capitalism is the world standard.

Populism is irrrelevant. The question is whether one is governing by ideology or governing by strategy. He spent too much time managing the narrative and no one he hired was competent to turn it from populist to policy-nerd prose and daily humiliate the press corp.

Trump understood exactly what he was doing. Had I been his press secretary the Whitehouse press would have been humiliated every single day. The only reason he lost was covid. Otherwise, his geostrategic reorganization and economic policies were the best since GB1. Just true.

Are you looking at the data by percentages of districts or are you looking at the data by winning districts?

The change is that the predictable consequences are coming into being, a little later than I predicted (2020) and a little earlier than others predicted 2025).