Our ruling class has essentially been dethroned by an algorithm, bought off and dispossessed from agency. We are in a post political world where we have a vocabulary for politics that no longer contain the same structures of meaning as when they were built after World War II. The big reason i wrongly thought the trump was going to lose is that i assumed that more people then did had still, by 20 16, an invested relationship with the cal process. And the reason i overlook that is that my personal life situation during the obama years was relatively stable, and then towards the end of it kind of up. That totally discounts the experience of millions of people who saw the bottom of their
Featuring Matt Christman on how American history brought us to this awful present.
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