The most immediately obvious problem with this article is that it merely makes the left-opposition into an appendage of the Democratic Party (to the degree they are not already) held captive by rightwingophobia. Although a valid point the article makes is that the neocons will indeed attempt to […]
The ironic thing about this meme is that the Republicans have actually become more diverse under Trump.
This is a somewhat interesting analysis from a left-communist/an-com/Bordigist perspective. Listen here.
A pretty good discussion of the demographics of US electoral politics from a paleoconnish perspective. I expect to the Republican Party to take more leftward drift in the future and develop elements that more closely resemble European Christian Democrats (very mild social democratic rhetoric couched in quasi-religious terms) […]
By Peter Turchin Something happened in the United States during the 1970s. According to a number of indicators, well-being of the majority of Americans, which had been growing for many decades, entered a regime of stagnation and, eventually, decline. The trend towards greater equality in incomes and wealth […]
By Matt Purple, The American Conservative It’s time for a new electoral map, one that colors the states according to what Donald Trump thinks should happen to the votes there. So make Pennsylvania and Michigan lavender since Trump wants their counting to stop. Arizona can go mauve since […]
With the exception of Obama and maybe Jimmy Carter, he was the most liberal president in US history.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti share their thoughts on what will happen after all 50 states certify their election results.
The voters said no to the neocons? Jacobin Editor-A-Large, David Sirota, discusses how the Lincoln Project’s goal to “reduce Republican Trump support” may have actually backfired
A pretty good discussion of automation is included in this. Founder of Humanity Forward, Andrew Yang, reacts to the results of the 2020 election. He also discusses his hope for the future of UBI.
I suspect the neocons are planning to find someone they can use to harness the energy of Trumpism toward their own ends, but without the loose cannon of Trump himself. In fact, I’m certain of it. They were successful at embedding themselves in the administration to a large […]
This is pretty good. Some good attacks on the neocons. Saagar Enjeti explains the dangers of the calls to cancel or render every person who has ever worked for Donald Trump as unemployable.
By Lois Karel I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016, nor for Clinton (had done lots of research on the Clinton Crime Family). I didn’t have a high opinion, or much of any opinion, about Trump before he “mistakenly” got elected. It was only when I saw that […]
By Elham Manea, TELOS It is becoming difficult lately to turn on the news. And I do not just mean the American presidential elections. The year 2020 was and still is a hard one. COVID-19 has dominated our lives with its limitations. But it has also welded people […]
This article is more or less advocating that the Republicans reinvent themselves as the equivalent of European Christian Democrats. Like the war profiteers, corporate plutocrats, and Israeli/Saudi functionaries who run the GOP are ever going to take that seriously. I think it’s quite likely the Repugs might shift […]
If anything, Trump has moved things leftward. His voters this time were the most diverse of any Republican voters ever. He has made protectionist and isolationist rhetoric nominally acceptable among conservatives, and he has pushed the left further left in their reaction against him. Krystal Ball explains why […]
The main thing I get from this analysis is that “left-libertarian” ideas (broadly defined) are actually rather popular even if they have no political representation.
The US continues to drift leftward in virtually every social and cultural category. The amount of “diversity firsts” in the election was significant and even Trump voters were more “diverse” this time around than they were in 2016. The only major group with which Trump lost voters were […]
He got co-opted by neocons on foreign policy and by neoliberals on economics. Imagine that. Saagar Enjeti lays out who is to blame for Donald Trump’s election loss.
The further left the Democratic candidates, the better they seemed to do. The distinction between the economic left and the cultural left is important as well. Krystal Ball explains the “caveats” that come along with Joe Biden’s victory in the Presidential Election.
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, shares his thoughts on how “wokeness” may have distorted political polling.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Donald Trump has made the American left fucking stupid. I honestly can’t think of a more eloquent way to put it than that. In one of histories most vicious ironies, the greatest legacy of Orange Man Bad may […]
By Andrew Sullivan The “wisdom of the American people” is a horrifying cliché, routinely hauled out every four years as pious pabulum by those whose candidate just won. But the complicated and close election results of 2020, in so far as we can understand them at this point […]
By NATASHA KORECKI, ALEX ISENSTADT, ANITA KUMAR, GABBY ORR, CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO and MARC CAPUTO ,Politico Brad Parscale was on the phone with President Donald Trump and top White House officials in mid-February when someone on the line asked the campaign manager what worried him the most. Parscale, speaking […]
Glenn Greenwald joins to discuss the election (taped on Thursday), leaving the Intercept, and more. Matt and Katie ponder the future of both parties after a tightly contested result.
I’ve always thought that the neocons who pull the strings at FOX and many of their talking heads were closet anti-Trumpers who had to pretend to be Trumpists in order to keep their ratings up with their nursing home/trailer park coalition audience. Now they’re throwing Orange Man under […]
Biden was/is the anointed candidate of the ruling class whose administration will be the Obama/Bush regime rolled into one. But of all eligible voters, 1/3 voted for the opposition, 1/3 voted for a third party or didn’t vote at all, and the majority of Biden voters think Trump […]
They didn’t “fail” if Biden wins. It may be true that the general public doesn’t care what a bunch of warmed-over Bushies think, but it doesn’t matter if they’re the ones pulling the strings. The goal of the Lincoln Project and other similar efforts was to create a […]
By Ryan McMaken, Mises Institute Election Day 2020 finally arrived, and it looks like it’s going to be a long process before the official winner is finally determined. There will be lawsuits over which ballots will be counted. Both sides will be accused of fraud and of other misdeeds. […]
Krystal and Saager are always hoping to be able to unite the working class around “populist” (welfarist and trade protectionist) issues. I don’t think that will happen. The culture war divisions are so deeply entrenched that there is no buying anyone’s way around them. Class divisions will become […]
The most important part of this is the evidence that the candidate that raises the most money is no longer the guaranteed winner. What I think that means is that cultural, ideology, and socioeconomic divisions are so wide that politicians can’t simply buy their way around these anymore. […]
Here it comes. At present, it looks like Dementia Man may win with literally the minimum number of electoral votes allowed. Orange Man is not likely to go away quietly. By Mark Sherman, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Democrat Joe Biden inched closer to the 270 Electoral […]
By Seth J. Frantzman, Jerusalem Post Not for generations has there been such a profound division in the US and question about whether the country will come out of this unscathed. The boarded-up stores in Washington and several other US cities, along with the fear of election violence […]
It goes without saying that FOX will blame any election-related violence on the “left” while the rest of the media will blame Trumpists and the “far-right.” And they will all probably be right. FOX News The Oregon National Guard was activated in Portland, Ore., on Wednesday night in […]
The “You Cheated!” Olympics are starting. By Mike Baker, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Simon Romero, New York Times PORTLAND, Ore. — Calling on election officials to “count every vote,” protesters marched through the streets of several American cities on Wednesday in response to President Trump’s aggressive effort to challenge […]
By Chris Walker, Truthout A group of at least 200 Trump supporters, many of them armed, gathered outside an elections center in Arizona on Wednesday night, demanding access to see ballots after a false rumor spread online alleging that their votes weren’t being counted. The group congregated outside […]
Notice that this is what left and liberal media is worried about when a ruling class unity regime that will be the Obama and Bush regimes rolled into one is six electoral votes from taking power. A lot of Trumpists and others further to the right are obviously […]
I found this on a social media site and thought it was interesting. I can’t say any of this is “wrong” (for one thing, it’s based on a single person’s observations and experiences). The only criticism I would have is that it underestimates the dangers of authoritarian leftism […]
By Mark Crispin Miller In a genuinely democratic country, where the will of the electorate is sacrosanct, there would be no rush to call a close, contested presidential race, especially one using new mail-in ballot systems nationwide. Rather, there would be a comprehensive, thorough and (somehow) impartial forensic […]
“Half-right — 49 out of 50 voters chose one of TWO sociopaths.” – Thomas L. Knapp By Tom Nichols, The Atlantic The moment every Donald Trump opponent has been waiting for is at hand: Joe Biden seems to be taking the lead. So why am I not happy? […]
By Paul Gottfried, Chronicles They may claim Marxist lineage, but Stalin, Castro, and Guevara would have precious little patience for today’s cultural revolutionaries. Is the current left Marxist? In a provocative commentary, Bill Lind explores this genealogical question, and, unless I’m mistaken, the left and much of its […]
More John Wayne Gacy than Ted Bundy. By Caitlin Johnstone Waiting for the results of the US presidential election is like waiting to find out if you’re going to get hit by the mugger with the bat or the mugger with the crow bar. Dave Calhoun, CEO of […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Any violence arising from the US election or its aftermath will only benefit the powerful, will be used to justify authoritarian agendas which serve the powerful, and will in all probability have been instigated by the powerful. There are plenty of arguments to be made […]
By Rod Dreher, The American Conservative Well, I just returned from voting. Got up early to get to the polls when they opened at six a.m. Arrived a bit late — 6:20 — and there was already a long line. This was good, because it gave me more […]
By Angelo Codevilla, Claremont Review of Books On September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93’s passengers defied armed hijackers and fought to take over the cockpit regardless of danger or odds because they realized that certain death was the alternative. Michael Anton’s 2016 essay “The Flight 93 Election,” […]
More like the “role of the jerkers’ movement.” Of course, that would indeed make them the natural counterpart to the anti-fapper Proud Bitches. By Alejandro Reuss, Labor Notes “It can’t happen here.” That is the complacent mantra that a society with long-standing “democratic” institutions couldn’t possibly succumb to […]
By Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic Casting a ballot by Election Day is just the first thing Americans have to worry about. What if President Donald Trump and his allies stop the counting of ballots, or delay vote certification until Republican state legislatures can play hanky-panky with the electors? […]
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right The last time America faced an election where two incompatible cultures contended was 1860. Then, the face-off was between the industrial culture of the North and the agri-culture of the South (as Wendell Berry reminds us, agriculture is culture). The result was […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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