Two articles try to explain, in a macro way, what’s gone on with the Trump thing, Andrew Sullivan, thinking like an 18C Whig, blames excesses of democracy; Jacobin, thinking like some sort of post-Leninist Marx revivalist, defends its idea of democracy against Sullivan’s critique. I find both of these pieces naive in ways I won’t write a longwinded post about right now, but I also find it interesting that the 2016 election is raising these really elemental questions about the very idea of democracy in America.
In at The End of The World 
Thanks for both links and the contrast. The Sullivan piece, and the rush to praise it, made me uncomfortable – liberals love to blame every negative outcome on someone’s stupidity or unfitness to live. The underlying question of how we define it . . . I need to go read.
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This: “liberals love to blame every negative outcome on someone’s stupidity or unfitness to live.”
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