Odd Bedfellows
By Paperwight on postmodern Republicans:
The central insights of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove (and, I suspect, most of the right wing machine) into the manipulation of the political process are twofold:
1. Act as if there are no facts. There are simply things that people say or believe, and other things that other people say or believe.
2. Act as if there is no causation. There are simply things that people do and other things that happen. There is no connection.
To this might be added a Schmittian approach to the political; friend and enemy, with no underlying set of rules or concerns to inform action.
All with due apologies to the genuine post-structuralists out there.