so Tucker, Steve Bannon, et al are socialist in the sense that they are anti-immigrant and opposed to the "transnational, global, corporatist elite." a kind of national socialist, as it were
"Nationalism is class collaboration, the belief that the national identity cuts across class identity and class conflict." libcom.org/blog/pmc-meets…
Hobsbawm on fascist appropriation of left-wing rhetoric and symbols
"Too reactionary for left media and too mediocre for the right, the Post Left is camped out in the uncompetitive niche market of Republican Marxism, pandering to the right populists for scraps of clout and patiently hoping for a sponsor to call their own." carlbeijer.com/p/what-is-the-…
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thanks to Biden's broken promise, "the payments now effectively create an insanely punitive marginal tax rate on a very narrow band of Americans" slate.com/business/2021/…
extremely cool to see the argument coalescing again that The Left needs to shut up about justice and Dems need to run reactionary Blue Dogs in every marginal race
worked before, it will work again!
yeah in seriousness this is the giant hole in the center of the case, conservadems in practice are *much* more opposed to popular economic stuff they are to like immigration reform
the narrative that iced up wind turbines are behind the Texas blackout is total bullshit. in fact wind was overproducing estimates yesterday arstechnica.com/science/2021/0…
one expert "estimated that about 27GW of coal, nuclear, and gas capacity is unavailable, in part because the cold has driven up demand for natural gas for heating" theedgemarkets.com/article/frozen…