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  1. Below is a neat summary of how the US got Trump’ed. I find the last para very interesting, the ‘channneling’ bit. Who’s to say that Democrats can’t do what Trump does? And if the Dems strategised to do just that, how would they do it? What would it look like?
    #robertreich #trumpism #thoseleftbehind #ElectDemocrats
    “by 2016, millions of American workers — the vast majority of them with no college education and no union to support them — had been left behind. Their wages were stagnant. They could be fired at will. Their lifespans were shrinking.

    The economy no longer offered them the means of doing better. Politics no longer offered them a voice.

    Into this void came Donald Trump, who as president gave large tax cuts to the wealthy and large corporations but somehow made the working class — especially the white working class — feel he was speaking to and for them.

    He channeled their cumulative anxieties and frustrations into bigotry, nativism, and hate toward Muslims, Mexicans, Democrats, bureaucrats, and “coastal elites.” He took a wrecking ball to democracy. He is now running for president again.” ( Robert Reich)

  2. Below is a neat summary of how the US got Trump’ed. I find the last para very interesting, the ‘channneling’ bit. Who’s to say that Democrats can’t do what Trump does? And if the Dems strategised to do just that, how would they do it? What would it look like?
    #robertreich #trumpism #thoseleftbehind #ElectDemocrats
    “by 2016, millions of American workers — the vast majority of them with no college education and no union to support them — had been left behind. Their wages were stagnant. They could be fired at will. Their lifespans were shrinking.

    The economy no longer offered them the means of doing better. Politics no longer offered them a voice.

    Into this void came Donald Trump, who as president gave large tax cuts to the wealthy and large corporations but somehow made the working class — especially the white working class — feel he was speaking to and for them.

    He channeled their cumulative anxieties and frustrations into bigotry, nativism, and hate toward Muslims, Mexicans, Democrats, bureaucrats, and “coastal elites.” He took a wrecking ball to democracy. He is now running for president again.” ( Robert Reich)

  3. Below is a neat summary of how the US got Trump’ed. I find the last para very interesting, the ‘channneling’ bit. Who’s to say that Democrats can’t do what Trump does? And if the Dems strategised to do just that, how would they do it? What would it look like?
    #robertreich #trumpism #thoseleftbehind #ElectDemocrats
    “by 2016, millions of American workers — the vast majority of them with no college education and no union to support them — had been left behind. Their wages were stagnant. They could be fired at will. Their lifespans were shrinking.

    The economy no longer offered them the means of doing better. Politics no longer offered them a voice.

    Into this void came Donald Trump, who as president gave large tax cuts to the wealthy and large corporations but somehow made the working class — especially the white working class — feel he was speaking to and for them.

    He channeled their cumulative anxieties and frustrations into bigotry, nativism, and hate toward Muslims, Mexicans, Democrats, bureaucrats, and “coastal elites.” He took a wrecking ball to democracy. He is now running for president again.” ( Robert Reich)