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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Yes. We are saying the same thing.
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Matt Yglesias has a somewhat related point that seems pretty sharp:
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You have to understand the growing prominence of overt racism in conservative politics as reflecting the collapse-without-replacement of the other parts of the program.
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The Trump economic agenda is not actually *different* from the Bush agenda even as it implicitly recognizes that Bushism is not tenable anymore.
Instead of new ideas, we have a degenerate version of the old agenda.
Bolton is the same thing on foreign policy.
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On cultural issues, the whole elaborate framework around blocking marriage equality while touting marriage as a poverty cure has evaporated but again replaced with nothing at all or what amount to irritable mental gestures about bakeries.
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Those are three successive tweets from April 17 which I just saw.
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