{"id":132788,"date":"2020-07-09T08:13:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=132788"},"modified":"2020-07-09T08:13:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:13:41","slug":"trump-the-great-awokening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=132788","title":{"rendered":"Trump & The Great Awokening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liberal Jewish psychiatrist Scott Alexander wrote on the even of Trump’s 2016 victory<\/a>:<\/p>\n

One more warning for conservatives who still aren\u2019t convinced. If the next generation is radicalized by Trump being a bad president, they\u2019re not just going to lean left. They\u2019re going to lean regressive, totalitarian, super-social-justice left.<\/p>\n

Everyone has already constructed the narrative: Trump is the anti-PC, anti-social-justice candidate. If he wins, he\u2019s going to be the anti-PC, anti-social-justice President. And he will fail. First of all, because he doesn\u2019t really show much sign of knowing what he\u2019s doing. Second of all, because all presidents fail in a sense \u2013 80% of Americans consistently believe the country is headed the wrong direction and the president is the natural fall guy for this trend. And third of all, because even if by some miracle Trump avoids the first two failure modes, the media will say he failed and people will believe them. And when the anti-PC, anti-social-justice President fails, the reaction will be a giant \u201cwe told you so\u201d from the social justice movement, and a giant shift of all the disillusioned young people right into their fold.<\/p>\n

Trump is all set to be the biggest gift to the social justice movement in history. They thrive on claims of persecution, claims that they\u2019re the ones fighting a stupid hateful regressive culture that controls everything. And people think that bringing their straw man to life and putting him in the Oval Office is going to help?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liberal Jewish psychiatrist Scott Alexander wrote on the even of Trump’s 2016 victory: One more warning for conservatives who still aren\u2019t convinced. If the next generation is radicalized by Trump being a bad president, they\u2019re not just going to lean … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t