03-09-2016, 02:11 AM
And of course the ironic part is that the revolt is basically one against neo-liberalism of leaving everything to the free market, embodied in its most fundamentalist form by.. the Republican Party..
Quote:Trump’s words articulate the populist backlash against liberalism that has been building slowly for decades and may very well occupy the White House itself, whereupon the entire world will be required to take seriously its demented ideas.Millions of ordinary Americans support Donald Trump. Here's why | Thomas Frank | Opinion | The Guardian
Yet still we cannot bring ourselves to look the thing in the eyes. We cannot admit that we liberals bear some of the blame for its emergence, for the frustration of the working-class millions, for their blighted cities and their downward spiraling lives. So much easier to scold them for their twisted racist souls, to close our eyes to the obvious reality of which Trumpism is just a crude and ugly expression: that neoliberalism has well and truly failed.