The Trump base — middle to high-income white property owners in rural areas and exurbs — is sociologically identical to the membership of the second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan, which acted similarly against social pressure from below and economic pressure from above.
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Yes, I was just making a similar point in response to
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Nils Gilman @nils_gilmanReplying to @blpdcSeems like a pretty big leap to go from “We lost the culture war over pop music” to “So let’s burn the whole country down” — and “humiliation” seems like a pretty weak bridge to connect the two. “We‘re losing the culture war over white supremacy” seems like a stronger predicate.1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes -
How do you explain the extremely similar phenomena in Turkey and Italy, then?
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Well, to clarify, my view is that Marx is basically right on this point, and that my Second Klan example was just a way to illustrate that, with whiteness, in that case, acting as a form of “small property.”
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I have not, although I have read plenty about him.
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There's a lot of Marx is Francis (via Burnham, for whom leaving Trotskyism meant changing class allegiance but not abandoning class analysis). Like Calhoun, both Burnham and Francis deserve to be seen as Marxes for the master class.
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I'd file that under "if you're used to privilege, equality looks like oppression"
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