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Trumpism After Trump: Will the movement outlive the man?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Trumpism After Trump: Will the movement outlive the man?

For Trump was doing tricky ideological lifting that went all but unappreciated by the NatCons. He fed the richest in society in the currency they prefer—dollars—and he fed his fans lower down with a temporarily effective substitute—recognition. It takes a certain talent to keep so much in the air. The Trumpists will survive the end of Trump, but they will also inherit Trump’s circus act. The dimmer NatCons aspire to sustain the performance; the more earnest want to slip an actual popular agenda into the mix. But when the time is ripe, the Grand Old Party will treat Trumpian idealism like any debt-ridden entity, selling it for what they can, once they’ve stripped it of its parts.

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How the Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

In the past decade, liberals have avoided inconvenient truths about the issue.
— Read on archive.is/485RY

“In 2005, a left-leaning blogger wrote, “Illegal immigration wreaks havoc economically, socially, and culturally; makes a mockery of the rule of law; and is disgraceful just on basic fairness grounds alone.” In 2006, a liberal columnist wrote that “immigration reduces the wages of domestic workers who compete with immigrants” and that “the fiscal burden of low-wage immigrants is also pretty clear.” His conclusion: “We’ll need to reduce the inflow of low-skill immigrants.” That same year, a Democratic senator wrote, “When I see Mexican flags waved at proimmigration demonstrations, I sometimes feel a flush of patriotic resentment. When I’m forced to use a translator to communicate with the guy fixing my car, I feel a certain frustration.”

The blogger was Glenn Greenwald. The columnist was Paul Krugman. The senator was Barack Obama.”

‘Economic Nationalism’ vs. Libertarian Globalism Is the Battleground of 21st Century Politics

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

What I took away from the movie was less about whether Bannon might personally be able to scale Trumpism up to the international level and more about the realization that nationalism vs. globalism is the fundamental political cleavage in the 21st century. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have far more in common with each other than they do with many people in their own parties; one reason American politics is increasingly spiteful and stupid is because we’re speaking in terms—right-wing and left-wing, liberal and conservative, even socialist and capitalist—that have become outmoded. There are socialist populists and socialist internationalists, right-wing populists and right-wing internationalists, and on and on.
— Read on reason.com/2019/04/12/steve-bannons-economic-nationalism-is-th/

New Zealand Mosque Shooting — Lessons for Whites Around the World

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

From Brexit to Trump’s election to Yellow Vests protests in France to New Zealand shooting, there’s a common theme: many white people around the world are confused, scared and angry about globalization. And, in some people, the fear and anxiety bring out the worst, including violence and murder. Furthermore, the fear is not just among…
— Read on worldaffairs.blog/2019/03/16/new-zealand-mosque-shooting-lessons-for-whites-around-the-world/