Trump campaign
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Trump campaign is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between February 09, 2021 and November 07, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “looking at the Trump campaign vs. the Clinton campaign”; “and the Trump campaign ad almost writes itself”; “the Trump campaign’s dossier on JD Vance”. It most often appears alongside Biden, California, Joe Biden.
Metadata
- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: February 09, 2021
- Last seen: November 07, 2024
Appears In
- Book Review: Why We’re Polarized
- Book Review: The Cult Of Smart
- Links For November 2024
- Congrats To Polymarket, But I Still Think They Were Mispriced
Related Pages
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- Biden (2 shared issues)
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- California (2 shared issues)
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- Joe Biden (2 shared issues)
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- Trump (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- US (2 shared issues)
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- Vox (2 shared issues)
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- BadMTGCombos (1 shared issues)
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- 1960s America (1 shared issues)
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- 1964 Civil Rights Act (1 shared issues)
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- 538 (1 shared issues)
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- @cremieuxrecuel (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
That having been said, I don't think he acquits himself well here. Some of his arguments aren’t great (the Republicans "launched a bizarre and unpopular campaign to impeach Clinton", but Clinton was obviously okay and didn't deserve impeachment, so the GOP has gone crazy and is a threat to democracy). He refers to data "showing Congressional Republicans have moved further left than Democrats have moved right", which I think is a typo (isn't the usual argument that Republicans have moved further right than Democrats have moved left?) but he never gets around to presenting it, instead gesturing at how it's obvious by looking at the Trump campaign vs. the Clinton campaign. This does not seem obvious to me. Trump holds basically the same positions that Americans in the mainstream of either party would have held in a less polarized time (eg 1995); Clinton holds positions that everyone in 1995 (including her husband) would have thought insane, radical, and ultra-far-left.
DeBoer isn't convinced this is an honest mistake. He draws attention to a sort of meta-class-war - a war among class warriors over whether the true enemy is the top 1% (this is the majority position) or the top 20% (this is DeBoer's position; if you've read Staying Classy, you'll immediately recognize this disagreement as the same one that divided the Church and UR models of class). The 1% are the Buffetts and Bezoses of the world; the 20% are the "managerial" class of well-off urban professionals, bureaucrats, creative types, and other mandarins. Opposition to the 20% is usually right-coded; describe them as "woke coastal elites who dominate academia and the media", and the Trump campaign ad almost writes itself. But some Marxists flirt with it too; the book references Elizabeth Currid-Halkett's Theory Of The Aspirational Class, and you can hear echoes of this every time Twitter socialists criticize "Vox liberals" or something. Access to the 20% is gated by college degree, and their legitimizing myth is that their education makes them more qualified and humane than the rest of us. DeBoer thinks the deification of school-achievement-compatible intelligence as highest good serves their class interest; "equality of opportunity" means we should ignore all other human distinctions in favor of the one that our ruling class happens to excel at.
Inline links: Staying Classy, Theory Of The Aspirational Class
X/Twitter banned journalist Ken Klippenstein for sharing the Trump campaign’s dossier on JD Vance. Twitter’s side of the story is that the dossier was probably originally stolen by Iranian agents and they don’t want to support that kind of thing by letting people signal-boost the illicitly obtained goods; you can read Klippenstein’s side here. He appears to be unbanned now.
Polymarket (and prediction markets in general) had an amazing Election Night. They called states impressively early and accurately, kept the site stable through what must have been incredible strain, and have successfully gotten prediction markets in front of the world (including the Trump campaign). From here it’s a flywheel; victory building on victory. Enough people heard of them this election that they’ll never lack for customers. And maybe Trump’s CFTC will be kinder than Biden’s and relax some of the constraints they’re operating under. They’ve realized the long-time rationalist dream of a widely-used prediction market with high volume, deserve more praise than I can give them here, and I couldn’t be happier with their progress.