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Monique Camarra's avatar

Are you kidding me? It's fabulous. I'd already read the Molly Mckew series (ate it up), just looking at all the others now. Once a week would be great. Thanks to all Cosmo Globalists.

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Tim Smyth's avatar

An initial response to the Zeihan pieces I have is there are models of successful US Democratic Party entrenchment in places like my State of Massachusetts but also other states like Hawaii and Joe Biden's Delaware. A particular feature of this model is in this places the GOP has been almost completely vanquished with the Democrats instead becoming an almost Japanese LDP style party or Italian style late 20th century Christian Democrat party. A party of the true center devoid of much ideology focused entirely on staying in power. In particular in Massachusetts a veneer of two party politics can be layered on by sometimes having very moderate Republican governors such as the current incumbent Charlie Baker who does little to threaten Democratic Party legislative majorities. In fact in the Bay State there is saying that Massachusetts doesn't practice "old school" politics instead it is "oldest school" referring to it being the oldest North American colony of Great Britain as the article below suggests.

http://www.masspoliticsprofs.org/2020/12/30/deleos-tenure-reflects-the-bay-states-political-exceptionalism/

So if you feel that the GOP must be completely vanquished and even a one party Japanese LDP style Democracy would be preferably well there are some models of that existing in the US some of which Joe Biden is quite familiar with. I will have to go into this in another comment but Biden choosing Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as a Labor Secretary is a rather intriguing pick given Walsh's past history of involvement with the ideological idiosyncratic Massachusetts Labour movement(centered heavily on the construction trades which Walsh was in charge of).

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/04/30/walsh-union-leader-worked-bridge-gap-between-developers-unions/VBVjseduRven1hvF7sg59L/story.html

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