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1/5 Trump's victory shows the authoritarian right can win even with rising GDP and supposedly 'good' economic figures. We must do three things if we don't want them to win here.
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.
Can we now please stop the paternalistic Vibecession talk, as if people don’t understand their own pocket books, their own existential worries and instead try to understand how an anti-fascist economic policy for the working majority can look like?
Not to say issues of misogyny, racism, foreign policy, changing media landscape etc. don't play a part, but most of it can be explained with meat and potatoes materialism. Trump got fewer votes than in 2020, Americans didn't suddenly become fascists - Dems ignored the worst off
Not really back here but re-posting interesting folks on what happened in US election - tldr: if Dems ignore the very real financial pressures on millions of working people (inflation, 25 million losing medicaid) they won't vote for them, no matter how horrendous the opponent is.
Staggering class realignment/shift in working class Harris lost DESPITE major shift of affluent voters her way 2020: Trump wins voters over $100K, 54-52 2024: *Harris* wins voters over $100K, 54-45 2020: Biden wins voters $50K-$100K, 57-42 2024: *Trump* w/ voters $50K-$100K,…
Why did voters abandon Kamala Harris? Because they feel trapped – and Trump offered a way out On Donald Trump and the new pluto-populism My column theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Well worth a read on some more detail as to *why* people voted Trump (h/t @MattNoahSmith)
I just woke up to the news that Trump is again the president of the United States. I want to say I am surprised, but I am not. I have been conducting fieldwork in Hawaii since June 2023 for our project on immigrant conservatives. I spent 1.5 months with Filipinos and many other…
Perhaps the government - whose big housing plan to solve the housing crisis is “rip up red tape so our friends in construction build many more houses where they’re needed, out of the goodness of their hearts” - will now reintroduce stringent regulatory requirements.
I feel like I’ve said so much the past few days that I’m genuinely speechless at how shameful this is. Those poor asylum seekers tonight trapped in this same Tamworth hotel surrounded by people who want to burn them alive
.@BBC insisting on reporting racist rioters as 'protestors' and 'demonstrators' is a gross misrepresentation of the violence impacting communities of colour across the UK. Language matters.
I just woke up to the news that Trump is again the president of the United States. I want to say I am surprised, but I am not. I have been conducting fieldwork in Hawaii since June 2023 for our project on immigrant conservatives. I spent 1.5 months with Filipinos and many other…
"Thames Water bondholders need to take a haircut." And there my friends is the reality of the situation. Bondholders should not see a penny of the public's money. Not a penny. thetimes.com/business-money…
Under-appreciated stat from last week’s election: Labour won its lowest ever share of the vote in deprived areas (<50% for the first time), and its highest ever share in affluent areas. The result is a dramatic flattening of the class gradient in Labour support.
Independent candidates performed well in areas with high levels of child poverty. Many independent candidates attacked Labour for saying they would keep the two-child cap on benefits. Far easier to pretend these voters only care about foreign policy though.
Most deprived areas: ● Seats where Independents beat Labour — Dewsbury, Blackburn, Birmingham Perry Barr ● Seats transformed into marginals — Bradford West, Rochdale, Birmingham Yardley ● Clacton where Reform won+Blackpool, Barnsley, Rotherham where Reform picked up support
Labour's vote share decreased by 6.9% in the most deprived parts of Britain. Politicians and pundits can deride populism but it doesn't come out of nowhere. When people see their communities fall into decline and they feel worse off, they will look for answers elsewhere.
Politicians doing & saying unpopular things (“deport Bangladeshis”), & losing their seats as a result, becomes ‘sectarian’ & thus illegitimate (rather than the way the whole thing is allegedly supposed to work!) when it’s Muslim voters exercising their democratic judgment. Prick.
The rise and rise of sectarian politics is proving a big theme
funny that akehurst has to actually “be a local MP” now. people coming to him about the bins and so on while he’s on his phone tweeting 24/7 about the immense ethical majesty of the idf
The next government will have to make urgent improvements to daily lives of voters, esp in those de-industrialised areas that were left for dead decades ago. That is a huge challenge given the austerity politics that will dominate this decade.
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