If it feels like it's an "oh shit everything we tried failed" moment for progressives and the left, it is. Try to figure out what went wrong and how to change.
I hate to say I told you so but I've been pointing out that the left immolated itself under Obama in 2008 and they have never reckoned with their errors. nakedcapitalism.com/2012/06/wiscon…
The conservative movement didn't wait 20 years and take power. In 1964 Goldwater lost, but then in 1965 they influenced policy and then in 1966 the conservatives won elections everywhere.
The long-game excuse is just that, an excuse. The left lost because their ideas are bad.
The long-game excuse is just that, an excuse. The left lost because their ideas are bad.
There is the biggest fight within corporate American in our lifetimes and the biggest geopolitical realignment since the Cold War vis-a-vis China, and the left has *nothing* to say. Nothing. They don't even notice it. americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/02/the-wa…
In my book I go into how Democrats and populists used to operate, and how they related to businesses, banks, and fascists. It is very unlike today. Those Democrats were populists and loathed political aristocracy. simonandschuster.com/books/Goliath/…
If you don't know anything about business then you don't know anything about power in America. Most progressives will be tempted to see problems in silly political strategy or candidate foibles. Don't go there. Learn about *business* and *banks.* simonandschuster.com/books/Goliath/…
I'm sorry to shill my book, but I wrote it to teach people how we used to structure power and it took me years to figure it out. I just want you to not have to fumble around like I did.
It's an *ideological* problem within the left. It's also global. Or has no one actually noticed that the left has failed absolutely everywhere? Did it cross anyone's mind that perhaps America is not unique?
