Thread by @emeriticus

The project some of us need to undertake right now is hammering nationalist populism free of the dross, defending it from internal distortions and from people who want to return to "business conservatism" and the neoliberal orthodoxy. "Who are we?" is the question we must ask

There are enough people writing and talking about the election. I think more of us need to examine this "movement" and consider some of its contradictions

Too many of the people writing about populism or the realignment, I think, are just hoping that now the GOP can't so easily be called racist because more nonwhites joined the coalition. In other words, they aren't serious

Consider who is in the West Wing creating policy (a lot of people who suck and hate the working class/America First as a concept) and the fact some people really do want to make Lil Pump the face of the movement... is this who we are?

I think a critical error of the Trump admin was seeking cooperation instead of polarization with the establishment. Say what you want about people like AOC, but she knows how to rile up her constituents and set them against her colleagues and the Democratic Party

In fact, his and his administration's penchant for deal making was maybe unwise in DC, where everything moves sideways. Whoever succeeds him will have to learn to use the force of public opinion to cow the establishment into submission