And this leads me to the Coleman Unified Political Field theory: that the Left's entire appeal now is premised on the appeal to (purported) authority.
Forget substance. Trust (our now wholly-owned) institutions and brands. The FBI. The judiciary. Carl Bernstein. The AP. Etc.
None of these great institutions - associated with stability, fundamentally conservative values - these legacies of supposed trustworthiness - would lead us astray!
Not the Times. Not the CIA. Not the Bushes. Not Science.
We (the Left) literally occupied the Flag. Now, salute!
In which I foolishly entertain a total stranger in my DM's and am nonetheless found wanting for failing sufficiently to distance myself from ultra-rightists like @Cernovich and @SethAMandel: 1 of 2
Part 2: DM stands for "demented meltdown"
If my reputation is "taking a bashing" from people with that level of reasoning ability, it's the best thing that ever happened to me.
I don't think you personally have to have working class cred to have an opinion about work. But it sure helps in that department if you've ever had to wear steel-toed shoes to do your job.
Also not for nothing if you've ever lugged cartons of tube socks to a flea market on the weekend to help your parents pay for your college education.
Three for $2.75. *Like the sign says* (damn it)
Working the counter at Carvel was much more fun but it only paid minimum wage. I still miss that job.
Hilarious. Before he became the GOP nominee for POTUS, Trump was known as a louche reality TV star, relentless self-promoter and entrepreneur of various degrees of success who, still, had undeniably had been a significant real estate developer. In other words, a personality.
But it's utterly unremarkable (except by strange people such as myself) for an utterly unremarkable guy on Twitter to just assert, regarding an historic figure with such exceptional achievements in social space, that he has "no tangible relationship to human nature."
Trump was blackmailed by a disreputable woman because he did something that demonstrated a lack of moral character and discretion.
His judgment regarding whom to trust with managing the blackmailer is far more troubling to me.
But the entire Cohen piece - from the nature of the relationship, to the disregard for his client's confidentiality by both Cohen and the judiciary, to who is representing Cohen now - is inscrutable.