The political-cultural war obscured the central truth of neoliberalism: Blue America overwhelmingly won an economic war ironically thanks to the way Reagan set up the post-Nixonian economic chessboard.
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I find that Red America is deeply caught up in a “decline of the west” neo-spenglerian narrative with no desire to even look for a shared new common humanity narrative. They see no place for themselves on a world that the west doesn’t unilaterally dominate.
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Hence the vulnerability to simple racism. Globalism was fine so long as globe was defined as Europe+Not#rth America.
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This doesn’t actually bother me since geofenced simple racism directed at the the non-white world, unlike structural racism directed at American blacks, only affects you if want it to, and seek out conflict. If you stay in the Blue West and the cosmopolitan economy you’re fine.
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Blue's defense is, "oh nobody really believes that, they just make you say it, nothing ever comes of it." Red's defense is, "more bullets, more monster trucks, more freedom."
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Have you seen
@mattyglesias’s new book: One Billion Americans? He puts a great powers competition frame around the case for immigration and pro-natalist policy. Trying to give a red-state frame to progressive policies that would help red and blue stateshttps://www.amazon.com/One-Billion-Americans-Thinking-Bigger-ebook/dp/B082ZR6827 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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