Donald Trump is skilled at inflaming culture-war conflicts to distract from the GOP’s shameless class war on behalf of the rich. For Democrats to counter Trump effectively, they need to attack the billionaire class.

Donald Trump is skilled at inflaming culture-war conflicts to distract from the GOP’s shameless class war on behalf of the rich. For Democrats to counter Trump effectively, they need to attack the billionaire class.

  • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Sirota:

    Liberals are offended by Trump’s lack of manners in pulling off extreme versions of what their own party icons have done, but many Americans seem to cherish the Joker-like quality of Trump’s antics. They seem to appreciate that — unlike establishment Democrats — Trump at least doesn’t use a dog whistle to trick anyone. He uses a bullhorn to proudly broadcast and brag about his malfeasance — all while offering a captivating and distracting culture war along the way.

    Swinging these disillusioned voters away from the authoritarian right is an imperative — not for saving the Democrats, but for saving the country. And yet right now, these voters are being offered only conservatives’ MAGA circus or liberals’ Davos cocktail party.

    We literally just tried avoiding the culture war to convert conservatives and the centrists and Sirota won’t let that stop them from saying the problem is all that wokeness. Fuck them all.

    That’s not how I read that in the context of the rest of the article. Maybe it’s me, but I feel like you try to fit this article into the “centrists” framing when it’s not about that. The article is about offering alternative to Trump fake anti-establishment talk with a real policy based anti-establishemnt movement. It’s promoting everything that corporate (aka centrists) Democrats doesn’t stand for.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Literally the only difference between the (white cis male) centrists and (white cis male) Sirota is that he says “economic populism” and the centrists say “kitchen table issues” or “tariffs”. They have exactly the same scapegoats, the same goal to convert conservatives, and the same dismissiveness for core constituencies on the left.

      He literally centered “avoiding culture war” in the title and spent two thirds of it listing the things you shouldn’t say, dutifully accompanied by conservative caricatures of the left. How you can come away from that as “it’s just anti-establishmentism” is beyond me.