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Lane Crothers
@lanecrothers.bsky.social
Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University. Editor of •Populism.• Author of Rage on the Right, and Globalization and American Popular Culture.
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A debate prediction: tariffs and tax cuts will create enough magic money to pay for all our dreams. Mass expulsions will solve all social problems. And Donald Trump wielding the power of the federal government to avenge his grievances will ensure American democracy for all time.

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I am just realizing I never listed my time as a busboy at Red Lobster when i was 17 ...

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Here in the Midwest it’s corn detassling.

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And so 34 years as a full time university teacher — 30 of them at ISU — has come to an end. The things I could tell that young whippersnapper who first walked into a classroom at the University of Alabama-Huntsville in Fall 1990. But knowing myself at that time, I probably wouldn’t have listened.

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Sure. Governor’s State and UI- Springfield in Illinois for example. Started as Junior/Senior-serving; mostly night classes, etc.

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We *just* watched these with our son …

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And yet she still opines on a national stage.

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Giving an exam. Large class; on Canvas. Walk around. Student in back of class taking the exam while watching a video on his phone. The New World Order.

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Last night, Trump claimed he had heard that over 300,000 undocumented immigrants were *flown* into the United States ... Yesterday. Yesterday. Folks, at 300 people per flight, that's not than 1000 flights. Which seems ... unlikely. Or utterly insane.

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Lane Crothers
@lanecrothers.bsky.social
Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University. Editor of •Populism.• Author of Rage on the Right, and Globalization and American Popular Culture.
17 followers52 following55 posts