Trump: A Setback For Trumpism

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Trump: A Setback For Trumpism is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 19, 2021 and April 20, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “See eg Trump: A Setback For Trumpism”; “I wrote Trump: A Setback For Trumpism”. It most often appears alongside Matt Yglesias, Peter Thiel, Resistance.

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  • Category: Publications
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: April 19, 2021
  • Last seen: April 20, 2023

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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.

April 19, 2021 · Original source
I think this basically happened. See eg Trump: A Setback For Trumpism. A.
April 20, 2023 · Original source
22: This month in institution design: The Pear Ring is a distinctive ring you can wear to signal that you’re single and interested in people introducing themselves or flirting with you. Good idea in a vacuum, but I’m worried about the two usual banes of things like this - how do you build up a critical mass who understand the signal, and how do you prevent negative selection (even if it’s just “selection for weird people who like weird institution design things”?) Also, this is one of the rare cases where a startup is selling a practical product and I’d prefer a subscription-based Internet Of Things monstrosity - surely it would be even better if you spotted someone wearing the ring and then you could use your smartphone to call up their dating profile. 23: A few years ago I wrote Trump: A Setback For Trumpism, about how after Trump was elected, support for most of his policies (including immigration restrictions) fell. A new paper confirms that this is a general pattern whenever right-wing populists win an election. I continue to be interested in why this is true for right-wing populists in particular. 24: 200 Concrete Problems In AI Interpretability. “You can note which you're working on, and reach out to other people doing the same.” 25: Some good discussion of Nayib Bukele’s apparently successful anti-gang crackdown in El Salvador: Richard Hanania presents evidence that it’s not just a “deal with the gangs”, it’s a real crackdown that should be embarrassing to other countries that choose not to do this.