To my mind, Trump is the result of U.S. geopolitical and geoeconomic decline; the domestic militarism caused by the Global War on Terror; and the oligarchization caused by the neoliberal economy, especially a deregulatory project that enabled the conglomeration of business ...
... and the financialization of the economy. Now, while it is obvious that Trump is more dangerous than Kamala Harris, or any Democrat--I don't think a Democrat would have deployed ICE/CBP to U.S. cities--the Democrats ...
... bear significant blame for Trump's victory. For decades, they failed to respond to the obvious structural transformations of American society, and in so doing, paved the path for Trump's two terms.
This is strange, because one of liberalism's historical hallmarks ...
... was that it was very effective in incorporating criticism. The New Deal and neoliberalism were both, in effect, liberalism's response, first, to the failure of nonregulation, and, second, to the stagnation of Fordism.
To me, the biggest indicator of liberalism's ...
... decline is its seeming inability to incorporate criticism and reform itself. This was embodied by Obama and Hillary Clinton's various claims that, in effect, America was already great, and it is reflected in liberals' inability to admit the left was right about most things.
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