Esteban del Mal’s Reviews > The Cycles of Constitutional Time > Status Update
Esteban del Mal
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The breakdown of elite consensus means that there is no clear direction of either history or “progress.”
— Nov 18, 2021 06:41PM
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Esteban del Mal
is 65% done
One might think that…the polarization in the United States will never recede. But ironically, the very forces that led to a politics organized around identity rather than class have produced incoherent party coalitions that will eventually drive the country away from its current zero-sum politics.
— Nov 18, 2021 08:23PM
Esteban del Mal
is 25% done
Trump was only able to rise to power because the Reagan coalition is aging and falling apart, because his party’s political strategies have contributed to increasing polarization and distrust among fellow citizens, and because the regime’s commitments to policies that produce economic inequality have contributed to increasing constitutional rot.
— Nov 11, 2021 08:16PM
