The Manhattan Institute is also a billionaire-sponsored think tank that exists to advocate for lower taxes – there’s a lot of them, and I imagine they’ll all have a version of that article.
Trump’s border policies would have been well received decades ago.
I don’t think so. His policies, including his border policies, are more extreme versions of previous policies that were all quite controversial at the time – gradually disassembling important judicial principles and democratic checks and limitations of power.
But I have to keep hammering on this, because you keep ignoring it: the status quo is that things are getting worse - so voting for the status quo, is voting that things should keep getting worse. People understand this. As long as there is no leftist alternative, things will keep creeping further towards fascism - slower when the centrists are in power, and faster when they’re not.
Decades ago, Trump’s extreme policies regarding border security would never have been necessary because there would never have been a flood of illegal migrants. In the 1960s, the Civil Rights movement began. Even nonwhite US citizens faced discrimination.
No, politics too far to the left produces far-right parties. One of Trump’s top campaign issues was tougher border security. The AfD party is becoming popular because of its anti-immigration stance. It has been stopped by Merz’s centrist views.
I don’t think they’re necessary today either, and I don’t think they’ll do much good. I think immigration has been blamed for a bunch of stuff, just like with EU-membership in the UK – and in the UK we see what happens when leaving the EU seems to have led to more harm than good. Farage and the gang just double down, the UK just hasn’t left hard enough, and with the moderate Labor government in charge, Farage’s party is soaring in the polls.
As for far-left policies producing far-right parties, I’d use post-war economic policy as a counterexample to that, but then we’d have to get into the nitty gritty of effective tax policy, and I’m sure we’d both just like to have a relaxing easter week :p
The Manhattan Institute is also a billionaire-sponsored think tank that exists to advocate for lower taxes – there’s a lot of them, and I imagine they’ll all have a version of that article.
I don’t think so. His policies, including his border policies, are more extreme versions of previous policies that were all quite controversial at the time – gradually disassembling important judicial principles and democratic checks and limitations of power.
But I have to keep hammering on this, because you keep ignoring it: the status quo is that things are getting worse - so voting for the status quo, is voting that things should keep getting worse. People understand this. As long as there is no leftist alternative, things will keep creeping further towards fascism - slower when the centrists are in power, and faster when they’re not.
Decades ago, Trump’s extreme policies regarding border security would never have been necessary because there would never have been a flood of illegal migrants. In the 1960s, the Civil Rights movement began. Even nonwhite US citizens faced discrimination.
No, politics too far to the left produces far-right parties. One of Trump’s top campaign issues was tougher border security. The AfD party is becoming popular because of its anti-immigration stance. It has been stopped by Merz’s centrist views.
I don’t think they’re necessary today either, and I don’t think they’ll do much good. I think immigration has been blamed for a bunch of stuff, just like with EU-membership in the UK – and in the UK we see what happens when leaving the EU seems to have led to more harm than good. Farage and the gang just double down, the UK just hasn’t left hard enough, and with the moderate Labor government in charge, Farage’s party is soaring in the polls.
As for far-left policies producing far-right parties, I’d use post-war economic policy as a counterexample to that, but then we’d have to get into the nitty gritty of effective tax policy, and I’m sure we’d both just like to have a relaxing easter week :p