2. Applebaum's argument, found in her recent book Twilight of Democracy & excerpted in the Atlantic, is a perfect distillation of the elite centrist worldview: that all anti-systems politics is just sour grapes, that Bernie=Trump, that meritocracy is real, etc.
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3. The South African example lays out the ludicrous assumption: that the British Empire was a meritocracy & Boers were resentful louts. In fact, apartheid was one extreme variation of racist state found in white settler colonies like Australia, Canada & (ahem) USA.
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4. Is Applebaum right that only losers & soreheads could possibly object to just meritocracy created in 1990s? I sat down with
@bellye66 to talk about this, drawing on his reporting in 1990s Eastern Europe & stories of Pat Buchanan, Cardinal Gleck etchttps://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-carpetbaggers-in-eastern?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …Show this thread
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honestly why would anyone think about it, much less "often"
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did she happen to mention the 1898 war the boers lost or was that too insignificant for her?
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Jesus. She shows insight into her failure to accurately read things in the first excerpt, only to return to her preconceptions in the second. Couldn't allow that the 'challenges' might have merit.
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This was explicitly described as the “poor white” problem in South Africa.
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"the neoliberal consensus" was never a consensus in the first place; cons were trying to unmake the post-war shift towards egalitarianism from BEFORE the jump, used "neoliberalism" and the flattery of "meritocracy"/race-science to do it, and its "collapse" was their succeeding
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