2. The political spectrum is widening in the Trump era, with both a new (more overtly racist) right and new left (that embraces the mantle of socialism). But the center (elite liberals & conservatives) has also been busy.
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3. There's an attempt to create a new center, one that defines itself against both Trumpian right and resurgent left. One symptom is way mainstream media keeps giving Never Trump conservatives platforms far greater than their (tiny) numbers demand.
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4. The outlines of this new centrism are still fuzzy, but I think one area where elite conservatives & liberals will unite is against "victim politics":https://newrepublic.com/article/148308/centrist-grievance-victim-politics …
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That theory flies in the face of who the people making this claim actually are; they're racist conservatives.
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Duh. It’s a transparent and uninformed appeal to being the only rational viewpoint, almost always fueled by fear of losing intellectual hegemony on behalf of normative identities.
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It’s just a dodge. Conservatives trying to co-opt language. It’s akin to trump era right wingers saying democrats are the party of slavery, etc. It’s faux intellectual nonsense.
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I don’t think it’s that complicated; I think it’s just an effort to kick up dirt around terms liberals have traditionally used, and make themselves more palatable to the people they’re trying to recruit.
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25 years ago, "liberal" was synonymous with "left," thanks to conservative rhetoric; now "neoliberal" has become synonymous with "right" thanks to left rhetoric (and maybe Hardt and Negri?). So what is a liberal? There's a need for conceptual clarity.
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Please listen to all the people in your replies telling you it’s radicals trying to cover their ideas under a cloak of normalcy and tradition, not centrists doing work. Please don’t help normalize them.
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Late Capitalism vomits up its hairballs.
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