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Republican group cites Dred Scott ruling as reason Kamala Harris can’t be president
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Well, racism.
More white women voted for Trump than Hilary. I don't think this was a fascism thing nearly so much as a failure-of-neoliberalism thing. Hilary built her campaign around a very business friendly professionalist campaign that had absolutely no appeal in the blue collar Rust Belt or the service sector heavy Atlantic Coast.
A better (cough Sanders cough) campaign wouldn't have hemorrhaged support through the Midwest and cost Hillary winnable states like Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Trump has been a big motivator for turnout when he was at the top of the ticket in '16 and '20. But MAGA as a movement doesn't seem nearly as enthusiastic without their Big Guy driving the turnout directly. Case in point, Trump was all over Alabama campaigning for the Senate primary. His primary pick lost. His backup primary pick lost. And then the pedophile freak who rode a christian white nationalist wave was the first Republican to lose a statewide Alabama election in nearly 20 years, purely because participation tanked.
Trump's One Cool Trick was to tap into a large number of otherwise apathetic voters and use them to win primaries. But when they're not voting for him specifically, he's done a poor job of GOTV.
Biden was dead weight on the ticket up until he dropped out, and Harris is enjoying an "Anyone But Biden" rebound. But that just makes this a race to the bottom in terms of candidate quality. Its not enough to just blame losses on Republican enthusiasm. Dems have been disappointing and betraying their base straight back to the Carter Era. Neoliberalism has choked progressive activism and liberal populism, ceding enormous amounts of territory to the Republicans.
thanks for the really well considered reply. gotta admit, I cant disagree with anything you wrote.
all damn valid points, particularly the failure of neo-liberalism to bring sustained improvement to the vast majority of people. something as soulless as this was always destined for a confrontation with reality.
I know its the thing to claim everything is "fash" again, but its gotten easier to recognize the evolution from reagan through biden of us imperialism and how tightly it couples in places with historically extreme right ideations.
velvet covered fascism is still fascism when it comes home to roost - and boy, howdy are we getting a nice little brush up against it.