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Repairing the World with Disruption

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We Americans have three political tendencies. First, there is “struggle.” Just before the election Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said:

If Donald Trump is elected, the struggle against climate change is over.

Interesting how, in Bernie’s mind, a straightforward mega-trillion-dollar handout to regime supporters in the Climate Industrial Complex is an existential “struggle.” But that’s the whole idea behind the left since 1789 and the French Revolution. We struggle for justice! We struggle for equality! We struggle for climate change!

It’s an idea that’s as old as the hills: rallying the faithful to kill for the One True God in Münster in 1534; rallying the people to kill for communism in Russia and China in the 20th century.

But average people in the ordinary middle class don't get the struggle session. In their tendency they just want the world to function while they go to work, get married, buy a house with a picket fence in the suburbs, and drive the next generation of children around in SUVs.

The third tendency is the idea of “disruption.” Speaker Mike Johnson just endorsed that tendency on CNN’s “State of the Union” with respect to Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees.

What I’ll say about the nominees, that the president has put forward, is that they are persons who will shake up the........

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