Jelani Cobb

I tend to think of this as a short-term strategy. You know, there was a boxer back in the 80s that you might remember named Frank the Animal Fletcher. I do.

That's shocking. I find it hard to believe. Yeah. But you recall his strategy was just to overwhelm his opponent, to just crowd him and throw all kinds of punches nonstop and so on. There was a flaw in that strategy, which is that eventually you run out of steam.

That's shocking. I find it hard to believe. Yeah. But you recall his strategy was just to overwhelm his opponent, to just crowd him and throw all kinds of punches nonstop and so on. There was a flaw in that strategy, which is that eventually you run out of steam.

That's shocking. I find it hard to believe. Yeah. But you recall his strategy was just to overwhelm his opponent, to just crowd him and throw all kinds of punches nonstop and so on. There was a flaw in that strategy, which is that eventually you run out of steam.

That you can throw up flak and shrapnel and the kinds of things, and you can do this in terms of flooding the zone for a limited period of time.

That you can throw up flak and shrapnel and the kinds of things, and you can do this in terms of flooding the zone for a limited period of time.

That you can throw up flak and shrapnel and the kinds of things, and you can do this in terms of flooding the zone for a limited period of time.

Yeah, exactly. I think that at some point, this becomes a counterproductive exercise in its own right.

Yeah, exactly. I think that at some point, this becomes a counterproductive exercise in its own right.

Yeah, exactly. I think that at some point, this becomes a counterproductive exercise in its own right.

That's true. It also rests upon the presumption that the things that Trump and his people have foregrounded And the past feels like past hundred days. It's actually been the past two weeks. That aligns with the things that people really care about. And that remains to be seen. The culture war things he's used to great profit.

That's true. It also rests upon the presumption that the things that Trump and his people have foregrounded And the past feels like past hundred days. It's actually been the past two weeks. That aligns with the things that people really care about. And that remains to be seen. The culture war things he's used to great profit.

That's true. It also rests upon the presumption that the things that Trump and his people have foregrounded And the past feels like past hundred days. It's actually been the past two weeks. That aligns with the things that people really care about. And that remains to be seen. The culture war things he's used to great profit.

But as we saw, you know, large reason why he lost the reelection bid in 2020 was the pandemic, which was a national crisis that he mishandled. There are other crises that are going to come up and there are other crises that are emergent even at the moment.

But as we saw, you know, large reason why he lost the reelection bid in 2020 was the pandemic, which was a national crisis that he mishandled. There are other crises that are going to come up and there are other crises that are emergent even at the moment.

But as we saw, you know, large reason why he lost the reelection bid in 2020 was the pandemic, which was a national crisis that he mishandled. There are other crises that are going to come up and there are other crises that are emergent even at the moment.

And how they navigate those things, I think, will be at least as important as their ability to flood the zone with all sorts of different distracting, concerning kinds of actions.

And how they navigate those things, I think, will be at least as important as their ability to flood the zone with all sorts of different distracting, concerning kinds of actions.

And how they navigate those things, I think, will be at least as important as their ability to flood the zone with all sorts of different distracting, concerning kinds of actions.

During the Cold War, you could taint anything by just saying that it was communistic or Marxist. And the interesting kind of connection with the civil rights movement is that when I was kind of young, I was kind of like, why were people connecting... racial equality with communism, just saying that if you integrate the schools, it's communism.