Called to Be Friends
…Political Views (2016) Michael Lind’s New Paradigm, and the ‘End’ of Social Conservatism (2014) A Strategic Political Realignment for Evangelicals? (2013) Race and Discrimination The End of the Myth of…
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Hayward on ‘Extremism and Moderation’ in the GOP
…It was 2015 that Trumpism replaced the Tea Party, though Michael Lind in the Breakthrough Journal had predicted something like this the year before. The Tea Party revived Goldwater’s rhetoric,…
What Can We Do About Polarization?
…as Michael Lind called out as early as 2014, before Trump made his appearance. He called the two alliances ‘liberaltarians’, or ‘densitarians’, which favor means-tested programs, and would include both…
Samuel Francis and the 1990s Shaping of the Trumpian Mind
…it might not be possible to fully detach Sam Francis’ political worldview from the white nationalism, which the The New Republic has noted over the years Michael Lind’s 1995 book,…
Why We Need Regionalism
…the distinctiveness of American regions. The New Deal, often thought of by conservatives as a time of centralization, favored Regionalism in its WPA art programs, according to Michael Lind in…
Manners, Customs, and Languages: The Spontaneous, A-Rational Kingdom
…became national languages through their education systems, for example. The United States is a cultural entity, with subvarieties, as Michael Lind [yes, him again!] explains in his work The Next…
I Became a “Decline to State”
…the Anglo minority community from everyone else? In 2014 Michael Lind predicted that social conservatism would fade away and that politics would align on the basis of the lower and…
California’s Trump-like Moment, 22 Years Before Trump: The Adventures of Pete Wilson
The United States on the whole has seen a rather sudden pivot, or so it seemed, of ‘conservatism’ from a coalition of religious or moral conservatives, economic conservatives [the latter…
Michael Lind: Can You Restrict Immigration Without Alienating Recent Immigrants?
Michael Lind is one of the most perceptive political and social observers of our time. He ‘scooped’ the Trump revolution, as I have said, before Trump even declared himself a…
The Religious Right Failed to See What Was Coming
…Blacks and Latinos can become a force. I have already posted on Michael Lind’s paper of 2014 [before the rise of Trump] predicting a new alignment after the disappearance of…