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- I too think this is a very insightful and useful analysis. From my point of view its estimates of outcome are probably a little too pessimistic. You are entirely correct, from my point o view, in your description of the reasons why the issues of data-mining and commercial subversion of individual autonomy aren't articulated at present in ways the largest traditional constituencies of the Republican Party can get behind. But, as Richard Hofstadter first pointed out forty-five years ago, in his classic essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," the long history of movements in American political life based on fear of conspiratorial forces seeking to undermine the Republic is reflected on both left and right. In our time, the conservative movement in the US, beginning with the John Birch Society, has always been strongly paranoid. Of course it tended to lose its paranoia a little bit when in power, but Dick Cheney, with his top-secret biohazard suit following him everywhere, and Bob Barr are both representative of it. And of course the NRA.
- The importance of the para-paranoid right as a force drawing the Republican Party towards concern with these issues (and on a constitutional basis of concern in particular) emphasizes what is also true in the Democratic Party: it's the "outside" edges of the Party, seen as both ideologically more radical and less "pragmatic" (or venal), than the "center," that moves the issues here. By emphasizing with skill and sensitivity the reasons why the pro-business center of the Republican Party will have to change the messaging around these issues to succeed in using them with its base is to set up another question: could the agitation of its conservative wing turn out to be a reason rather than an obstacle in the change?
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