{"id":72579,"date":"2019-11-06T09:41:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T15:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72579"},"modified":"2019-11-08T06:43:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T12:43:28","slug":"similarities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72579","title":{"rendered":"Similarities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Four years ago, Democrats got a little crusty when you pointed out that, underneath the targets of their respective rhetoric, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump had a lot in common.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both preached an implausible platform that grabbed a lot of people who wanted (and want) a politician to &#8220;Fix things&#8221;, sure.  Beyond that, both of them were America-firsters, although Sanders only manifested that through wanting to keep American jobs in the US (via economically ruinous means, natch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now &#8211; well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/11\/elizabeth-warren-donald-trump-catchphrases-cultural-resonance\/\">the same goes for Warren<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Warren\u2019s catchphrase, \u201cI\u2019ve got a plan for that,\u201d has as much cultural resonance with her base as Trump\u2019s \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d does with his, and it\u2019s remarkably similar to Trump\u2019s \u201cI alone can fix it.\u201d It tickles the intellectual erogenous zones of a certain type of progressive wildly overrepresented in the upper echelons of the meritocracy. It screams: \u201cWe have all the answers!\u201d and \u201cWe know what to do!\u201d<br>Technocratic liberalism isn\u2019t just an ideological worldview dating back to Walter Lippmann\u2019s 1914\u00a0<em>Drift and Mastery<\/em>, it\u2019s a cultural orientation. If you can\u2019t see it, it\u2019s probably because you\u2019re part of it. Fish don\u2019t know they\u2019re wet, after all.<br><br>The media loves to point out the craziness and impossibility of many of Trump\u2019s promises. He said fixing health care would be \u201cso easy.\u201d He vowed to eliminate the deficit in eight years. (It\u2019s up nearly 50 percent since he took office). He was going to ban Muslims and make Mexico pay for the wall. Whether his supporters believed him or not, they liked what these promises said about his priorities. \u201cDon\u2019t take him literally,\u201d we were advised, just \u201ctake him seriously.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Demogogs gonna demigog.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, Democrats got a little crusty when you pointed out that, underneath the targets of their respective rhetoric, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump had a lot in common. Both preached an implausible platform that grabbed a lot of people who wanted (and want) a politician to &#8220;Fix things&#8221;, sure. Beyond that, both of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,20,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20","category-democrats","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72588,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72579\/revisions\/72588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}