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PoMoCon #3: Henry Olsen on our Coalitions
Our new political podcast episode, as always, is on the political corruption of the elites. This time, we’re looking at recent elections and the major trends that have led to populism. We have elites who don’t want to represent the electorate. This will not end well, but it will end.
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Hey, a picture of Baylor’s campus, right?
And, Titus, you pronounce your name like the Pakistani Christians do! So Mrs. Augustine’s and my kid often had his name pronounced that way.
Yes–PoMoCon was led by Peter Lawler until his death almost two years back. He used to write at some length about Bobos–you know, from David Brooks’s articles & book. Peter wrote better than anyone I know on the liberal-libertarian convergence, then he ran into the realization in caricature of that possibility, & of course he had the picture taken!
It’s the Latin way! Glad to see it’s spread worldwide. Roman ambition would approve!
I didn’t realize that was actually my homeboy Lawler up there (RIP).
This helps to connect the dots.
Glad to see it’s back up–his archive at Big Think. He had a remarkable ability to make himself tolerable to people who were bewildered by his existence. Quite Socratic.
Morning Titus,
Thanks for another thoughtful interview. You and Henry suggest that we are going to enter a time of increasing political volatility. In the US there are few groups who ever go to the streets, and the unions who have historically gone to the streets for different causes are now so muted that it is hard to imagine any labor conflict which would end in violence. I went to Univ of Cincinnati in the late 60’s and had friends who were in the SDS and a neighbor who was being followed by the FBI who as a lay brother was counseling other college students to burn their draft cards. During this time there were riots and bombings and yet the number of folks who were actively participating was very few. Looking at the 60’s and our current population, I don’t see where we get to a situation where folks become participants. I think that we are too risk averse, or addicted to our comforts in the US, even the students are soft. It is true that we have turned the twitter mob into a rave party, so we have the capacity to savage the outliers, but I am not sure how our aging population will become so angry that they will even march on the capital.
I don’t see violence coming unless a crisis hits. I don’t see things like the late sixties–metropolises burning… We were thinking only about shocks to the system, as people make the government incapable of governing because the parties do not give the people what they want-