bsmall2> + Jeff Shurke, Blue Collar Empire: “The 2020 election was a miraculous reprieve. Dems had a short window to enact the kinds of sweeping, New Deal-style reforms necessary to reverse the rise of fascism. They obviously failed, or rather fulfilled Biden’s promise to donors that “nothing would fundamentally change.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/08/the-crack-up/
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/08/the-crack-up/
#uspol #BlueCollarEmpire #JeffShurke #JeffreyStClair #Counterpunch
The Crack-Up: Last Rites for a Doomed Party
In the final weeks of the campaign, Trump amplified his anti-war rhetoric. Why? According to the New York Times, internal polling showed that still undecided voters were "six times as likely as other battleground-state voters to be motivated by their views of Israel’s war in Gaza." Either the Harris campaign missed this lurking demographic or, more likely, just didn't care. Of course, Trump's still going to give Netanyahu the greenlight to burn Gaza, the West Bank and southern Lebanon to the ground and then target Iran.