I actually read this as an acknowledgement that the idealogy that some people call "cuckservatism" has no appeal to people who aren't elite whites, and thus we need a Right that is let us say, alternative.
I actually have always wondered what stops the GOP from being more like all of those parties and I guess it's our traditionally secular politics and lack of a unifying religious identity on the right
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"religiously conservative middle-class" in America, we call those people Republicans. I don't think American politics is secular at all, especially when considered to Canada, the UK, etc. etc. In fact, very similar to Turkey/India with religious middle class + secular elite.
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It's probably somewhere in between UK/Canada and India/Israel/Turkey. My view is that religion is pretty much the only effective organizing principle for the lower middle class
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I don't think you even need a common religion or culture. What about the very diverse Ford Nation in multicultural Canada, which is popular among non-whites? A Rob Ford-style coalition would win a supermajority in the relatively downscale America.
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I mean you could be right but I don't think stuff like "war on the car" scales very much beyond local politics
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I actually think urban-suburban-rural tensions will rise as urban areas gentrify with rich white liberals who reap almost all economic gains under global capitalism. "FUCK SAN FRANCISCO" actually seems like a winning platform for 2040 California Republicans.
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And nationwide, it easily coalesces into a general anti-elite animus towards whatever local urban area reaps most economic growth. So car culture actually seems like a major political flashpoint for the future.
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I already have none of those things. Duterte actually delivered most of those things in Davao (juries out on Bolsonaro since he's not in charge). I don't think it's either/or. "My side" has to win in order to have those things.
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