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MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2020

Did Schaller get it right?: Long ago and far away, we knew Tom Schaller a tiny tad.

As happenstance had it, we even sat together at a press table when Al Gore testified before a congressional committee about climate change. We'll guess that it was the 2007 event described in this news report.

We mention Schaller because Charles Blow quotes him in today's column. 

In our view, Blow could use some help with using his indoor voice, and with his use of key words like "some" and "all."  But we agree with the Timesman concerning Schaller's assessment:

BLOW (10/26/20): The most optimistic among us see the Trump era as some sort of momentary insanity, half of the nation under the spell of a conjurer. They believe that the country can be reunited and this period forgotten.

I am not one of those people. I believe what political scientist Thomas Schaller told Bloomberg columnist Francis Wilkinson in 2018: “I think we’re at the beginning of a soft civil war.” If 2018 was the beginning of it, it is now well underway.

Like Blow, we're inclined to agree with Schaller's assessment. (Schaller has already said in a tweet that he hopes his assessment was wrong.)

We're inclined to think Schaller was right! In our view, we've long since reached the point where political parties and demographic groups turn instead into warring tribes. We differ with Blow in this regard:

We don't think that all the unhelpful tribal warfare is being conducted Over There, on the other tribe's side. 

Now, a bit of disclosure:

Starting yesterday, at roughly 9 A.M., we were caught in a brutal installment of the occasional modern drama, The Flat Tire Which Can't Be Fixed and Occurs Some Distance From Home.

The bulk of the day was lost. This morning, we finally managed to arrange for a tow. For these reasons, today's report arrives a bit late, offering an overview of what we'll be discussing this week.

We've seen two recent pieces of journalism we'd especially like to discuss. 

On the one hand, there's Mary Trump's well-written piece in yesterday's Washington Post. Here's what the headline says:

Psychiatrists know what’s wrong with my uncle. Let them tell voters.

In Mary Trump's view, psychiatrists know what's wrong with Donald J. Trump. In our view, her piece is as interesting for what she omits as for what she chooses to discuss.

Mary Trump thinks her uncle is deeply unwell. Then too, there was Hannah Natanson's recent piece, also in the Washington Post, about the very small number of black and Hispanic kids who get admitted to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, a high school commonly said to be "the nation's best."

In our view, Natanson's piece is interesting for the questions it doesn't ask—for the remarkable facts it doesn't discuss. Do the lives of black children matter? We're never sure how to answer that question after reading essays like this.

Speculation will be running wild over the next eight days. Pundits will be offering utterly useless predictions, and they'll keep it up day after day.

We were struck by Mary Trump's piece, and by that piece about T.J. High. Our prediction:

By tomorrow, we'll have a clearer idea of what to discuss this week.


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  1. "Mary Trump thinks her uncle is deeply unwell."

    That's swell, very exciting, dear Bob. Very exciting, for every psycho suffering from TDS.

    Meanwhile, what about your liberal-goebbelsian media suppressing, totalitarian-style, all information about your Rapist-Mafioso candidate's protection racket?

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  3. "We don't think that all the unhelpful tribal warfare is being conducted Over There, on the other tribe's side. "

    Somerby perhaps thinks this because he is not on our side, this side, the liberal side. He is part of Over There himself. So, being part of The Other, he thinks it is the liberal's fault. If he were actually liberal, he would see more clearly that it has been the conservatives who have failed the nation by rejecting bipartisanship and making communication impossible, propagandizing their base to the point where they cannot think straight any more.

    If Somerby had read the 1619 Project with a more open mind, he would see that this so-called civil war is a direct continuation of the previous one, arising from the founding of our nation is notions of white superiority. He would recognize the contribution of bigotry to the taking of sides in this soft civil war. If he were a better man, he would reject any association with that bigotry, but we see what he is.

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  4. "In Mary Trump's view, psychiatrists know what's wrong with Donald J. Trump. "

    Anyone who isn't a half-wit knows what's wrong with Trump. They don't need psychiatrists to tell them. The problem is that many people are voting for Trump despite that.

    We need psychiatrists to tell us what is wrong with Trump voters, not what is wrong with Trump.

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    1. Some say amygdalas bloated with fear, some say unresolved child abuse; whatever the case, it is a bottom up issue where persuasion plays no role.

      Somerby can try to come at it from different angles, some clever, some not so much; whatever the case, it is center to center-right propaganda and it is fooling no one.

      I am sympathetic to the anguish this causes Somerby; however, his gaslighting attempts are inexcusable.

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  5. "Speculation will be running wild over the next eight days. Pundits will be offering utterly useless predictions, and they'll keep it up day after day."

    Meanwhile, voters will be voting, if they haven't already done so. This is the last chance for candidates to sway voters. It is an important week for anyone who lives in this country, but Somerby thinks we should rehash elite high schools and psychiatrist findings. He could be spending his next 8 days making a case for Joe Biden, but he is pretending there is no election going on.

    No liberal behaves this way. Can't wait for Somerby to discuss yet another article hidden behind a paywall so no one can read it without spending money, while he selectively quotes and distorts whatever is hidden from verification. Sounds like a whole lot of fun.

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  6. 46.1% of the electorate voted for Trump in 2016 and 44.8 voted Republican in 2018. “Mary Trump thinks her uncle is deeply unwell.” Around 44.8% to 46.1% of the US electorate must also be deeply unwell since they love everything about our president. Under our constitutional system strong minorities can gain power. There’s nothing that says that the deeply unwell aren’t allowed to rule.

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    1. Less than 60% of the electorate even voted so your numbers are off; furthermore, Republicans have gained power through cheating and corruption.

      "Inability to discharge" is in fact something our constitution "says".

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  7. "We don't think that all the unhelpful tribal warfare is being conducted Over There, on the other tribe's side."

    So it's an issue of tactics. At least Bob recognizes that we are under attack by a "deeply unwell" tribe. Perhaps some of our tactics have been unhelpful and we should be willing to listen to criticism. Also, we don't have Supreme Commander of our tribe's forces like we did in WW2 under Eisenhower. There are a lot of loose cannons out there.

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    1. "Perhaps" gets one off the hook of providing evidence.

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    2. 1. Protests work.
      2. Liberals are also winning at the polls.
      3. Republicans who are corrupt are going to jail.
      4. Even Putin knows his days are numbered and is abandoning Trump.
      5. The right-wing attempt to smear Biden didn't work.

      Here is what Somerby and others should be worried about. Trump has nurtured white supremacist and alt-right militias who have actively engaged in violence under cover of left protests and openly. So far, police have managed to prevent or catch perpetrators, but they are threatening to attack polls and disrupt peaceful transition if Trump loses. THESE are the tactics we need to be worrying about.

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  9. Trump is going to win. Prepare yourselves.

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    1. Win what? Most Corrupt Person of the Year?

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  10. What does "Bad Moon Rising", a song by Credence Clearwater, have to do with anything contained in this essay?

    Is Somerby implying that bad things are coming in or after the election? How does that help our liberal cause, to do that?

    He might as well be posting like the commenter above, who warns us that Trump is going to win.

    Somerby is the world's hugest asshole and using the Clinton's favorite band to signal bad times ahead for liberals isn't funny or cute or clever. It is being a huge asshole.

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    1. Bad Moon Rising refers to this:

      Schaller told Bloomberg columnist Francis Wilkinson in 2018: “I think we’re at the beginning of a soft civil war.” If 2018 was the beginning of it, it is now well underway. Like Blow, we're inclined to agree with Schaller's assessment. (Schaller has already said in a tweet that he hopes his assessment was wrong.)

      It refers to the rising of attitudes of conflict no matter who wins.

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    2. "Rising" is not borne out by the facts, this conflict has been around forever and at even much higher levels - carefully note the phrase "soft civil war", ponder it a bit and then try to see how it does not match up with Somerby's take on our politics and discourse. It may not come to you and that is ok.

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  11. If we truly are in the midst of a soft civil war, we'd better make damned sure that we win it, because nothing on the other side is good human beings.

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