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Carsten Agger Sep 30, 2023

Reading "Doppelganger" by @naomiaklein based on a recommendation from @pluralistic

The analysis of the mirror world of Bannonite conspiracy theories is poignant and important.

Just as scary, however, is the mirror world into which "hard centre" democrats receded after Trump's victory in 2016: The election was "stolen" by Russian interference, Trump was a "Russian asset", Putin was the evil mastermind behind it all. Instead of owning up to Clinton's loss, they all seemed to have gone insane.

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Carsten Agger Sep 30, 2023

@naomiaklein @pluralistic

Just like the tendency to blame the "white working class" for Trump's victory. In actuality, the white working class was under-represented among the Trump voters.

Why did these centrists supposedly all defending "reason" go down that rabbit hole? Maybe it is and was too painful to recognize that business as usual and dynastic entitlement (and "lean in" feminism) is not what the US needs right now. What it needed at the time was Bernie Sanders.

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mike bayer

@agger @naomiaklein @pluralistic We didnt get Bernie because he lost primaries to Clinton up and down the board. Has there been any "owning up" to that and why that was? IIRC all I heard then was he lost everywhere due to voter rolls being purged, which is equally if not more delusional than "Putin was the mastermind who stole the election"