[lbo-talk] Wisconsin politics - Rogers clarifies

Jeffrey Fisher jeff.jfisher at gmail.com
Mon May 2 18:14:46 PDT 2011


but, just so it's clear, I would be really excited if someone else did. It so needs to be there.

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote:


> lol
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> I wish I thought I could do that justice.
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> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:11 PM, martin schiller <mschiller at pobox.com>wrote:
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>> I think it would be generous of someone to throw up a quick wiki entry for
>> 'traditional reactionary babbittry'.
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>> On May 2, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> > On May 2, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
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>> >>>> New new new. Certainly not rural. More just upwardly striving (above
>> >>> their class, not with it) deracinated pig suburbanites, part of a much
>> >>> broader and familiar phenomenon, and easily assimilated to traditional
>> >>> reactionary Babbitry
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>> >>> Doug
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>> >>>
>> >> Interesting. So if I follow this correctly, he's saying traditional
>> >> reactionary Babbitry is a new (or at least new-ish) thing in Wisconsin.
>> Yes?
>> >
>> > Not fron that text. Traditional reactionary Babbitry already existed -
>> the aspirational suburbanites were easily assimilated to it. Or so he says,
>> and I have every reason to believe him since he's a smart fellow.
>> >
>> > Doug
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