nationalists have kind of consolidated around anti-China because a.) trade with China really did cause US manufacturing job loss, it seems; b.) the CCP really does do some bad things; c.) it's hard to see China as a pitiful victim when they're obviously an ambitious nation
(socially Winning, I mean.) That's mob rule. Even if the "mob" is mostly elite. Normal humans have *some* things they wouldn't want to do even if those things were prestigious. So you get populists going "guys, there are these people who are literally only tracking prestige"
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and of course most of the populists have their boundaries in a different place than mine are, so they're gonna accuse elites of doing things I don't actually think are bad.
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but "hey you're talking about anti-Chinese racism but not Chinese racism because you have a vested interest in sucking up to the CCP" is kind of fair, actually
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