Well...yeah...
It was interesting to watch a populist anger get subsumed by either party.
Trump campaigning on the economy erosion etc.. Even in his inaugural speech he testified to the destructiveness of neoliberal trade and economic policy. Similar to Buchanan really.
Dems meanwhile waged war on the reality. Trying to displace it thru (ahem) gas lighting: 'America is already great!', idpol politics and tales of Manchurion intrigue.
Trump rode a wave of populist anger to the Whitehouse. His analog, Sanders, was not able to overcome Dem party beat down in the primaries. He is partly responsible, IMO.
Yang looks like another venture capital salesman channeling the analysis of others who've made it their mission to drill into the parties realignments over the decades. I welcome his raising the subject, however. BAMN
Doubtful if team blue will listen to Yang though. They are already engaged in hippy punching while maneuvering further to the right. A decades long project.
It feels like they have picked up where Ol'Dutch left off. Lifting a senile, even more hawkish, more economically vicious neoliberal candidate to continue the work of Reagan.
Last edited by chunkstyle; 11/14/20 05:14 PM.
