It hasn't peaked for this voter. I feel validated by Trump's victory, and more eager than ever to to fight wokeness- for the future of American and the world!
There are a lot of nuanced connections to the populist uprising we are seeing throughout the West, but the core of the catalyst is the accumulated negative impacts to the non-elite class caused by globalism.
See the massive explosion in China's economy as the West educated its engineers and scientists, and gave away its industry to fatten Wall Street returns. In addition to the giant sucking sound of working-class jobs, it enabled massive corporate consolidation as the larger firms participating in the global game, would gobble up their smaller domestic competitors while also lobbying to push more small-business killing regulations. Then the establishments throws salt on those working class economic wounds with massive immigration.
The argument from the globalists used to be that consumers get cheaper goods. And yes, Walmart was stacked with cheap Chinese products. But with Biden inflation and high consumer interest rates, that benefit is over too.
What we are seeing is an end to the Global Order with US-funded protection of ocean freight and Wall Street run economic policies... both enabling communist countries like China to gorge at the economic trough at the expense of all but the top 10% income brackets of Western countries.
The populist uprising is basically a "no mas" movement against the globalists.
The rise of the populist Right isn't a revolt against the Left, though they have little use for the Left. It is a revolt against the establishment Right who have proved ineffective at countering or even oblivious to the Left's march through the institutions. Some like the Tories or the CDU are even part of the center-left rather than the usual description of center-right. 5
This Substack is really based on a similar phenomena on the Left. The Groups and those allied with them have become the Establishment and the more traditional liberals are in revolt against them. It is confusing because the more traditional liberals were once the Establishment but have lost the internal battle and now are the counter-establishment.
There is room for populist fusion, at least in the US. Since Trump is famously transactional and the same is true of many others on the populist Right, they are potential partners with either faction on the Left depending on whether the battlegrounds of the future are cultural or economic. Combination of either faction of the Left and the populist Right creates an unbeatable coalition with the clear losers being the establishment Right and which ever faction on the Left won't deal.
Excellent post! The second paragraph offers more insight than I have seen previously into the confusing switches of the establishment liberals to the counter-establishment side. Many of the boomers among us, including myself, started out as anti-establishment radicals, so have come round full circle. Having previously been one of the minority who were up against the leviathan, I am less bothered than some about that being the case again.
Trump will fulfill all his promises. He fulfill l ed most Las time with total opposition and this time he has support. If I'm Democrats, I'm looking at 28 as 1988, Except J. D. Vance is now GHWB. He's Trump II.
Good presentation of the situation and hopefully economies and rational thinking will bring on a period of reasonable progression of common sense in government and our lives.
Another well rounded thoughtful article from the Liberal Patriot. Thanks!!!
It hasn't peaked for this voter. I feel validated by Trump's victory, and more eager than ever to to fight wokeness- for the future of American and the world!
There are a lot of nuanced connections to the populist uprising we are seeing throughout the West, but the core of the catalyst is the accumulated negative impacts to the non-elite class caused by globalism.
See the massive explosion in China's economy as the West educated its engineers and scientists, and gave away its industry to fatten Wall Street returns. In addition to the giant sucking sound of working-class jobs, it enabled massive corporate consolidation as the larger firms participating in the global game, would gobble up their smaller domestic competitors while also lobbying to push more small-business killing regulations. Then the establishments throws salt on those working class economic wounds with massive immigration.
The argument from the globalists used to be that consumers get cheaper goods. And yes, Walmart was stacked with cheap Chinese products. But with Biden inflation and high consumer interest rates, that benefit is over too.
What we are seeing is an end to the Global Order with US-funded protection of ocean freight and Wall Street run economic policies... both enabling communist countries like China to gorge at the economic trough at the expense of all but the top 10% income brackets of Western countries.
The populist uprising is basically a "no mas" movement against the globalists.
The rise of the populist Right isn't a revolt against the Left, though they have little use for the Left. It is a revolt against the establishment Right who have proved ineffective at countering or even oblivious to the Left's march through the institutions. Some like the Tories or the CDU are even part of the center-left rather than the usual description of center-right. 5
This Substack is really based on a similar phenomena on the Left. The Groups and those allied with them have become the Establishment and the more traditional liberals are in revolt against them. It is confusing because the more traditional liberals were once the Establishment but have lost the internal battle and now are the counter-establishment.
There is room for populist fusion, at least in the US. Since Trump is famously transactional and the same is true of many others on the populist Right, they are potential partners with either faction on the Left depending on whether the battlegrounds of the future are cultural or economic. Combination of either faction of the Left and the populist Right creates an unbeatable coalition with the clear losers being the establishment Right and which ever faction on the Left won't deal.
Excellent post! The second paragraph offers more insight than I have seen previously into the confusing switches of the establishment liberals to the counter-establishment side. Many of the boomers among us, including myself, started out as anti-establishment radicals, so have come round full circle. Having previously been one of the minority who were up against the leviathan, I am less bothered than some about that being the case again.
Also my trajectory. Started in politics as antiwar and here I am again.
Trump will fulfill all his promises. He fulfill l ed most Las time with total opposition and this time he has support. If I'm Democrats, I'm looking at 28 as 1988, Except J. D. Vance is now GHWB. He's Trump II.
If he does deliver, and it's perceived that way by non-Trump diehards, you're probably correct.
Good presentation of the situation and hopefully economies and rational thinking will bring on a period of reasonable progression of common sense in government and our lives.