Do you think Trump is capable of seeing the optics of having nothing but billionaires running the country. We are going back to the founding days of mostly rich, white, men running the country. No an advance at all. Trump is reminding me a lot of George Wallace, in recreating a segregated society in the US. Trump is Jim Crow 2.0
Here is a piece I wrote on a talk by Jefferson Cowie who wrote Freedom's Dominion that I am reading right now with my book club. It is about the idea of White southerners that spread that white men have freedom when they can have dominion over others from slavery to Jim Crow. It is a view that is highly antagonistic to federal government. So Trump is just going to get rid of federal government illegally, by using Musk.
I'd suggest that Jim Crow 2.0's descendant is actually Project 2025, which also draws on right-wing, anti-labor ideas that tend to benefit corporations. What Trump has in common with Wallace is a knack for demagoguery and a particular appeal to white people, but as to the rest? Wallace grew out of a long, long white supremacist tradition. Trump doesn't really come from any tradition, but several traditions -- white racism, male misogyny, free-market capitalism, anti-federalism, etc. -- have embraced him as their leader, not because of his ideas or ideology but because they think he can take them where they want to go. The potential instability of the Trump coalition is that those traditions don't all have the same destination in mind, and some of those destinations are mutually exclusive.
Amazing, these Republican billionaires—so thin skinned, whiny … *needy* … petulant. Trump demands loud loyalty, Musk demands apologies; neither command respect.
Do you think Trump is capable of seeing the optics of having nothing but billionaires running the country. We are going back to the founding days of mostly rich, white, men running the country. No an advance at all. Trump is reminding me a lot of George Wallace, in recreating a segregated society in the US. Trump is Jim Crow 2.0
Here is a piece I wrote on a talk by Jefferson Cowie who wrote Freedom's Dominion that I am reading right now with my book club. It is about the idea of White southerners that spread that white men have freedom when they can have dominion over others from slavery to Jim Crow. It is a view that is highly antagonistic to federal government. So Trump is just going to get rid of federal government illegally, by using Musk.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/is-populism-the-way-to-go?r=f0qfn
I'd suggest that Jim Crow 2.0's descendant is actually Project 2025, which also draws on right-wing, anti-labor ideas that tend to benefit corporations. What Trump has in common with Wallace is a knack for demagoguery and a particular appeal to white people, but as to the rest? Wallace grew out of a long, long white supremacist tradition. Trump doesn't really come from any tradition, but several traditions -- white racism, male misogyny, free-market capitalism, anti-federalism, etc. -- have embraced him as their leader, not because of his ideas or ideology but because they think he can take them where they want to go. The potential instability of the Trump coalition is that those traditions don't all have the same destination in mind, and some of those destinations are mutually exclusive.