A salient factor in this election is Trump. I've been saying for years that overreach on the right creates space, then oxygen, then agency for the (far) left. This election is the natural and logical consequence of maga overreach (and vanilla skanky stupidity) and reminds economic popularism is not wholly owned by the right.
My fear is the US will cycle dumb right to stupid left, which helps absolutely nobody.
It's too early to eval mandarin... that will come ... but this under current has now got first and second derivative postive.
> My fear is the US will cycle dumb right to stupid left, which helps absolutely nobody.
I agree, but having a "stupid left" is a whole lot better than a "dumb right" who is authoritarian and willing to side step everything in their hopes of creating a christo-fascist utopia.
My fear is the US will cycle dumb right to stupid left, which helps absolutely nobody.
It's too early to eval mandarin... that will come ... but this under current has now got first and second derivative postive.