I dunno maybe leaving the economy as it is and doubling down on the culture wars might save America but it doesn’t seem to be working so far
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From a purely economic perspective Biden administration was good, strong on labor etc. it doesn’t matter. People like Dem policies when asked about them in isolation. But they don’t vote Dem. Even in Europe redistributionist policies are going out of favor if it means disfavored groups get help also
aug 26, 2025, 8:36 am • 0 0 • view
Everyone liked the New Deal because it excluded Black Americans…when that wasn’t possible anymore, they turned against it.
aug 26, 2025, 8:37 am • 0 0 • view
Racism is a constant, hard to explain a big shock with a constant
aug 26, 2025, 8:38 am • 0 0 • view
Your argument seems to suggest that Trump is the consequence of the end of Jim Crow 60 years delayed
aug 26, 2025, 8:39 am • 0 0 • view
Obama won two elections but racism explains Trump?
aug 26, 2025, 8:40 am • 0 0 • view
Yes. It does. Obama was a fluke. Look under the Presidential election and look what was happening at the State and Congressional level. MAGA and Trump are purely driven by racism, xenophobia. Poor people don’t vote MAGA; it’s the car dealers and real estate representatives that stormed the Capitol
aug 26, 2025, 8:42 am • 0 0 • view
Obama was a fluke? But Trump isn’t? I’m not saying racism isn’t relevant, just that it isn’t the variable that changes to cause the end of democracy in the US. The end of the middle class (yes, the white middle class!) is the trigger that turns ‘democratic’ racism into actively backing dictatorship.
aug 26, 2025, 8:48 am • 0 0 • view
As I argue here Anti-System Politics: The Crisis of Market Liberalism in Rich Democracies share.google/F8HKGtW0hsNk...
aug 26, 2025, 8:48 am • 1 0 • view
When l see this and people ignore it, l feel like Semmelweis In Vienna with the two hospitals. Black Americans are the poorest demographic- they vote for Democrats. The rest vote R for other reasons. “Deliverism”, and Biden tried by giving lots of $ to poor rural white areas, didn’t change that.
aug 26, 2025, 8:51 am • 0 0 • view
Liberalism is failing because minorities want a share of it, and whites don’t like it. It was all fun when benefits and social safety net was white only, not when they have to share.
aug 26, 2025, 8:53 am • 0 0 • view
Basically since 1964 only very very harsh economic conditions have moved a sliver of white voters in D column just enough to win some elections, for 1 cycle only. It has eroded over time. And Latinos now thought they were white. And are learning they’re not.
aug 26, 2025, 8:46 am • 0 0 • view
It may be different in Europe but here in US, nothing makes sense unless you include the variable of race in your calculations.
aug 26, 2025, 8:48 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, it is. It also the consequences of failure of Reconstruction.
aug 26, 2025, 8:43 am • 0 0 • view
Better scholars than l have written about this. I agree with that understanding because it is the best explanation for what l see around me.
aug 26, 2025, 8:44 am • 1 0 • view
The Civil Rights Act in 1964 is the turning point/ that’s when US became a democracy. For a little while. That’s when white voters stopped voting Democratic ( the old Dixiecrats became MAGA, basically)
aug 26, 2025, 8:40 am • 0 0 • view
It’s whole “whats wrong with Kansas” thing. People have concerns that aren’t economic. Or Brexit— it’s not the economy it’s ethic rage
aug 26, 2025, 8:39 am • 0 0 • view