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/159/ Biden Time ft. Amber A'Lee Frost & Alex Gourevitch
🕑 Added 2020-11-07 14:40:45 +0000 UTCOn the US election, a huge turnout and the end of Trump.
We survey the results of the presidential and legislative elections, peer through the exit polls and discuss some counterintuitive facts: Florida goes Trump but opts for a $15 minimum wage; California goes Biden while Uber gets its way; Trump did protectionism but it didn't help him win the Rustbelt; the Republicans win over more Latinos – but do Latinos even exist?
And the big questions: Will Biden and the Democrats have any authority now that they don't have anti-Trumpism to drive them? Is a Biden administration to be a Silicon Valley dictatorship? And will the GOP be Trumpism without Trump?
Readings:
- Are the Democrats losing on purpose? Amber Frost & Daniel Bessner, Jacobin
Comments
Adam Lehrer
This guy is absolutely insane if he thinks the Democratic Party is weak, or if he thinks that the “progressive wing” of the party is in any way functioning as dissidence to the party’s reactionary agenda, he’s dull (or doing propaganda). The Democratic Party controls 51 out of the 55 richest districts in the country, they have no need to organize the working class, and the AOC wing is merely a branding mechagnism for attracting young, over educated, dim witted woke lord urban voters. It’s going to get worse. There is no reforming the Democratic Party! I know this is a couple months old and what not, but I remember when Amber was courageous, she must know how ridiculous this guy’s ideas are about electoral politics. How depressing.
Joel
I don't think the fact that Trump voters say they are motivated by the economy is entirely or even mostly about a perceived trade-off between controlling covid vs the economy, although that's part of it. But one of the most common and effective arguments from Trump and his supporters was to point to the economy pre-covid, which had under 4 percent unemployment and rapidly rising median household income.
