And the left appears just as in flux right now as the right, if not more so. But media types generally find that kind of analysis boring.
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By fixating obsessively on right-wing trends (Tea Party, Trump) pundits get an excuse to forego self-criticism. Leads to a kind of stasis.
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Pundits find right-wing insurgencies and movements fascinating, but generally dismiss and eye-roll left-wing movements. Same as it ever was.
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Occupy had massive long and short-term accomplishments. Presaged Sanders. Was never an electoral politics movement
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Utterly wrong
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It's a long and complicated discussion, too much to get into right now
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Occupy gave us the rhetorical frame of 1% vs 99% which has been powerful and practical
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If I've learned anything from woke centrists, now left is right, they're one and the same, so case closed.
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That rhetoric helped make Sanders' campaign possible and informs/inspires growing leftist populism
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Some of that has to do with fact that there really isn't much to write about on any left-wing ideological trend. It's embryonic atm
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Stuff has been written about BLM, and that's probably the most coherent left wing organized movement that has taken hold recently
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It helped tank Romney so I doubt he'd agree
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Laying the groundwork for a populist leftist resurgence is a big deal
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Maybe that's a good thing. They'll leave us in peace so we can sort things out and start planning the revolution.
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Trad left-right paradigm becoming obsolete. 'Right-wing' movts today are economic nationalists. 30 years ago they'd be left-wing.
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