The national GOP's message to Virginians and Americans elsewhere is that the party plans to co-opt grassroots anger at things like CRT that directly affect families to push the same old Big Business policies, the kind of stuff Jeff Bezos and woke corporations that push CRT love
Nothing wrong with lightening the tax burden on the working/middle class but that's not what the GOP does. You get a little tax cut while your enemies get much more and your jobs get go overseas and the party floods the country with mass "legal" immigration
It's pathetic because corporations back the Democratic Party more than the GOP now, so this is basically GOP battered wife syndrome, begging corporations to notice them (at their constituents' expense and with their capital)
It's ultimately critical that the grassroots make sure they and their real causes don't get sucked up into the big stupid black hole that is the national GOP's grift apparatus
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If you thought Trump had learned from his first term, you're going to be disappointed
Trump's policy flagship for 2024 is not only run by the worst people from his admin but it is explicitly aligning itself with Heritage, AEI, and Cato
So much for draining the swamp 1/
The "senior Trump World source" is likely Brooke Rollins, who runs the America First Policy Institute, which is advised by Javanka. She was one of the advisors who softened Trump’s immigration policies and pushed jailbreak bills cooked up by the Kochs 2/
Trump recently headlined a gala for AFPI. It's not like he doesn't know. He either knows and approves or knows and doesn't care that his planned second term will be organized, again, by the people who didn't care about election integrity, law and order, or the working class 3/
White backlash is a completely real and completely legitimate political-electoral force and people shouldn't pretend otherwise
Don't see how this is controversial: if you are going to attack, shame, and slander white people as a group, then you shouldn't be surprised when they vote in self defense as a group
I also don't see how acknowledging the legitimate concerns of CRT's targets (white people) conflicts fundamentally with class stuff. Both of these issues are real and don't have to necessarily conflict, i.e., ruling class gins up hated of whites for its own ends
With worker strikes across the country underway, two things are noticeable:
-Marxoids refuse to accept some of these protests are connected to vaccine mandates
-Republican politicians, even those who have called for working-class "realignment," aren't championing strikes
It's hilarious that we keep hearing about the realignment from the GOP. Okay, how do we feeling about championing strikes to break the regime? Forget theory and op-eds--it's happening all around. Where is the support?
And "Marxists" are a joke, good little regime bootlickers
US politics are theater. Meanwhile, nameless men and women are putting the fear of God into school boards that abuse their children while working class Americans strike for better wages as "Marxists" tell them to get the jab and Republicans call for more "legal" immigration
We need right wing Klaus Schwab, a Machiavellian big brain with the will and vision to remake the world in a fundamentally different way
Problem with American conservatism-right wingism is that it wants to return to something that is beyond reach or cannot exist instead of plotting a course into the future
"We gotta return to 1776/classical liberalism/republicanism"
No you're not and you can't even if you wanted to, but you can draw inspiration from the things previous generations thought were worth fighting and building for
This is why the notion of cancel culture as understood by conservatives is wrong. People should be canceled, what matters is who is doing the canceling and why
As a former communist, Sidney Hook argued that members of the Communist Party USA (and others) could be ethically barred from public office because their goal was ultimately replacing the existing order with their own. Conservatives today don't understand self-defense like this