Millions of people now see the Republican Party as the party of the working class, whether they are blue or white collar: Middle America is putting itself in the GOP's camp. This is the only social force capable of pushing back on intersectionalism 1/
So we need to push the GOP to become a true labor party. No more corporate bootlicking, no more siding with big business, no more carrying water for tech companies and the immigration lobby 2/
No more attacking Social Security, and time to take seriously health care 3/
No more corporate tax cuts--we in fact need more corporate taxes, fewer taxes on Middle America. This election shows definitively that the Democrats are overwhelmingly the party of the ultra wealthy, of woke capital 4/
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A good mainstream take on why a decent number of black and Latino men support Trump: he projects strength and we respect strength like non-college whites do, and unlike effete whites à la David French 1/ nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna…
Imagine if Trump would, for once, publicly acknowledge how much Democrats and the left in general hate white people. I think it would rally whites, but also attract some nonwhites, probably mostly men, because of the cojones involved in the act -- strength respects strength 1/
It would highlight 1) how the yet largely white--not all white, of course, but mostly white--middle is crushed from above (Biden, Bezos, Bloomberg) and below (subsidized unproductive criminal class a la BLM) 2/
2) Take us one step closer toward a nationalism capable of unifying enough of the right people against the exploitative ruling class 3/
The Miles Taylor revelations of things Trump proposed but never came to fruition refutes the 4D chess people that claimed Trump couldn't be based in the first term because "optics." Trump had great ideas, but subversive staff and little to no external push back from the Right 1/
So Trump wanted to do some awesome things, but he was undermined by Taylor, Rollins, Kushner, Liddell, etc, who coordinated with the media to cover and help themselves 2/
And because conservative media has been so in the trenches against leftism and the Democrats, the polarization probably helped these people evade the notice they deserved 3/
The Copenhagen School of Security Studies defines political threats as challenges to the legitimacy of the political unit relating to ideologies that define the state. In other words, threats that undermine an existing or desired political order... 1/
...like a news story informing Americans of a certain presidential candidate’s history of corruption, or information relevant to public safety that is offensive or harmful to the narratives they favor 2/
Twitter and Facebook do not operate as mere “businesses,” but rather act more like nonstate actors, essentially as competing points of sovereignty -- who is in charge here? 3/
This is a cope. Mainstream conservatism can't conserve anything because it just copies whatever the opposition does and sells it as a different product. The Left, at least is creative enough to create culture that affects politics 1/
Which is why these people try so hard to copy them. If they were serious, they would want to use the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities to support and fund a counterculture from the Right. But that's too hard, too serious 2/
Note also I said that rapper endorsements are not a problem themselves, but that the problem is our leaders act as if they have just landed on Mars. So just telling them that a rapper's endorsement is neat, but not a world-historical event, makes them upset 3/
How French leadership responds to threats versus how US leadership responds to threats:
After a man is beheaded in France by an Islamist, the French respond by affirming their culture, projecting Charlie Hebdo cartoons on a building guarded by police... 1/
...as a kind of middle finger to the enemy. "We are French, we are proud, come and get it."
In the US, on the other hand... when statues are toppled and cities are burned, Republicans and Democrats respond with basically bribes, promises of affirmative action.... 2/
...by proposing making Juneteenth a national holiday (Trump proposed this), Rich Lowry at National Review pens his 50th article exhorting Americans to abandon Confederate statues, with prayers for the barbarians (Jacob Blake prayer at RNC), reparations (Democrats)... 3/