I think that the best one-liner of the day belongs to Matt Taibbi in his piece on who started the “culture war”:
I agree Democrats need to stop getting their political ideas from Davos and Ezra Klein, but I’m not sure the urgency is in “swinging disillusioned voters away from the authoritarian right.”
I think that by far the greater likelihood is that they’ll increasingly get their ideas from the populist left. Whether that is more or less authoritarian than the “authoritarian right” (by which he means the MAGA crowd or populist right) remains to be seen.
What are the ideas of the populist left? What I think I see is pull back from the more radical progressive ideas. I may be biased by PA, like you are with Chicago.
Steve
Listen to any speech by Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Note that I don’t disagree with everything they say just as I don’t disagree (or agree) with everything said by the populist right (which is how I would characterize MAGA).
Ideas like universal basic income that will be subject to yearly increases financed by debt. Nationalized healthcare financed by more debt.
Concessions and possibly tribute paid to foreign governments in lieu of military spending.
National decline and a comfortable death in a government hospice for the Great Satan.