THE KEY
Joshua TanzerDemocrats need to figure out some stuff before the next friggin nightmare comes to pass. The Key is about rethinking what politics is and doing politics differently.
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KEY #20: If everyone's a star-belly sneetch, then no one's a star-belly sneetch
We’ve been talking about tribalism. Let’s look at some of the ways that scholars have tried to figure out what that is.
• What’s a tribe?
In KEY #17 (Sept. 9), we noted that people have many tribes, and if the identities are unified f...
KEY #19: Liz Cheney is not the only Liz Cheney
On Friday we talked about how to move Republicans — it’s with messages from other Republicans. This fits with our consideration of how tribalism works in politics. Today, let’s go a little deeper on that.
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt publis...
KEY #18: It's coming from inside the house
The highest-profile organization fighting Donald Trump since 2020 is made of Republicans — the Lincoln Project. We need to talk about them for a minute.
The Lincoln Project is led by Republican campaign operatives who, to their credit, fou...
KEY #17: Tribalism works against us ... but can it work for us?
Okay, so from yesterday we know tribalism is working against us, but also, it isn’t everything. Maybe we can work around tribalism.
• Situational conservatism
A few years ago I had a great conversation at a Starbucks in Phoenix with a...
KEY #16: Yes, we clan!
“If I were to identify one profound flaw in the founding of America, it would be its avoidance of our tribal nature. The founders were suspicious of political parties altogether — but parties defined by race and religion and class and geogr...
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