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  1. @brenttoderian.bsky.social

    In much the same place, I fear.
    1) the extreme, wealthy right has been playing a very long game. Cf MacLean's #DemocracyInChains. The Democrats had rolled over and played dead since 1980 as far as any response to the right wings playbook went.

    2) Gore is an adherent of the market based neoliberal mythology, and is unlikely to have meaningfully addressed the job/income/affordability issues that have led to a steady decline of support for the Democratic Party. I believe he supported a lot of the policies that led to the dot com bust, and the 2007 - 2010 financial crisis (sub-prime mortgages, etc) - Glass–Steagall repeal, for example.

    3) I see no evidence that Gore, or any of his successors in party leadership, have any meaningful response to the "we can't afford...", "tax and spend", etc lines from the right whenever efforts to address underlying social problems.

    4) the failure to address impacts of trade and manufacturing outsourcing to low cost countries.

  2. Hashtag What Is Oligarchy #History

    Hello
    #largernows
    ‘Republicans Are Killing Democracy | Heather Cox Richardson

    Democracy Docket
    { Sep 8 2025 #MarcElias #politics #democracy

    Historian Heather Cox Richardson joins us today to explain fascism is on the rise in America. As one of the country’s foremost experts on the Civil War, she’ll reveal how the GOP went from the party of Lincoln to the party of Trump

    youtube.com/watch?v=6WBUzxnaLu0

    #WhatIsOligarchy

    #DemocracyInChains #TheLargerNow