"... even as corporatist Democratic voters abandon them. These include Mr. Trump’s skepticism of free trade and open borders—which may help account for the 10% of Democratic voters who told Monmouth University pollsters last month that they’re optimistic about a second Trump term."
Writes the political cartoonist Ted Rall, in "Optimism About Trump on the Left/His opposition to war and skepticism about corporations and markets make him appealing to some progressives" (Wall Street Journal).
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Congratulations on the 3000 blog posts for 2024!
Bernie Sanders participated in one of the most fake elections ever held - the Democrat Party nomination of Hillary Clinton in 2016. In return, he got a free $600,000 house on a lake ... the third home that the Sanders' own while staking out the most progressive position on homelessness the world has ever seen.
The political parties haven't changed. The Democrats are the racists and the Republicans freed the slaves. They almost started another Civil War by murdering Donald Trump and only a twist of happenstance prevented it.
Until we abolish the Democrat Party and arrest its leaders, America will never be free of their evil influence.
Bernie Sanders is a Socialist.
Please Trump and company - don't make Bernie happy. That means you are doing it wrong.
I'll admit, I never thought Trump would make a good president when first elected in 2016. Now, he may end up being the most consequential president since Reagan.
"issue stances"? Stick to drawing the funny pictures, Ted.
The mob left take care of their own.
Good news tho - Private Server Hillary Clinton/ Russia Russia Russia Lair Hillary Clinton(d) - WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT.
....and 61% think “the U.S. will no longer be a democracy” in the next 10 years
They must have included Robert Cook in the survey who has previously barfed up his Trump-hating view on this blog that I have little doubt he could set up concentration camps, etc., and his followers would support him and then described himself as the "rational" one in contrast to the rest of us.
It's extraordinary that the bug-eyed lefties fail to grasp that they are the most significant threat to democracy we have seen in recent times. Us MAGA folks just want to be left alone, but the neck-snapping finger-wagging female librul scolds and their beta cuck fellow Marxists seem insistent on instructing everyone else what to do and how to do it while they assault their babies with a curette in utero.
- Krumhorn
Ted Rall is writing in the Wall Street Journal. My how times have changed.
That would be a first for Ted Rall.
It's been many years since I saw anything Ted Rall related. Thought that libtard dried up and blew away. Anyway, perusing the old tags brought me to this Althouse quip that sure rang true this year:
January 30, 2017- "Celebrity liberalism and pleas to vote Democratic are where the Left goes to die"
So, in retrospect, Harris was Hillary redux and libtards have learned nothing.
Generally speaking, the ideological boiler plate is just for show. Nothing gets done about it, and when action is taken it's so shaped and formed by DC interest groups that it doesn't have the promised effects, so I was glad that Trump 45 wasn't a conventional "conservative." This time bigger changes are in the works, but I hope Trump 47 doesn't get sucked into the DC vortexes (vortices) whether corporate or "conservative."
The high school teacher (now professor at Cornell) who first turned me on to neo-Marxist thought used the textbook "The Irony of Democracy."
From Amazon, the 11th edition (1999):
After 30 years in print, THE IRONY OF DEMOCRACY still offers the freshest, most eye-opening approach to American government of any text. In this millennial edition, the authors again present an unrepentant elitist approach to American democracy, contending that it is the elites, not the masses, that govern our country.
LOL. We're not a democracy now. We never have been. This is a Republic. And it always will be.
Somebody's standard of living has to go down to replace the low standard of living in low-wage countries that jobs were recovered from. It may be a national security play but it won't work as an economic play. Quite the opposite. In the meantime Trump is riding on optimism about it.
It's like in inflation the disparagement is "wages have not kept up with inflation," as if it's a failure. Wages must not keep up with inflation if you're going to beat inflation. It's a contradictory expectation put forth as a failure.
Free trade works well in theory and sometimes works well in practice. However, it only works in practice when both sides are working in good faith. The current "free trade" situation has a whole lot of bad faith, both from trade partners and from corporations that are more concerned about profits, often short term and detrimental to them in the long term. (Well, detriment to the the corporation. Usually, by the then all the executives have cashed out.)
Also, politicians taking bribes. Also, fools that think free trade solves all problems as if it was a religion and not an economic policy.
There is also the matter of national security, as it is difficult to go to war with your factory if you export all your manufacturing jobs to unfriendly countries. Good luck stopping the hordes with 5-star resort hotels and lattes.
Inflation is at its heart a monetary problem, too much money chasing too many goods. The fact that someone's wages went up is usually not relevant. That's not changing the money supply. Wages going up is often an effect of inflation, but rarely the cause.
Back in the 2000s, who would have thought Ted Rall would be less of a libtard than Dick Cheney and George W. Bush?
Congrats, Prof. And feck Ted Rall!
If only the Republicans weren't such bought & paid-for whores, shills, and dupes of Israel, Wall$treet, and rest of the oligarchs and foreign rivals that run the US economy. The Teamsters hierarchy was stunned this past year to find that a majority of it's membership preferred DJT rather than the Democratic candidate and so the Teamsters remained officially neutral so as avoid internal problems. How many other unions, both large and small, are in a similar situation? There is a clear opening for the Republicans to gain popular vote majority status again here if they would but take it.
In the end, , the "war party," (which is to say, the US Govt.), always prevails.
When has Trump ever liked unions. He complimented Musk for firing employees who advocated for unionization.
You have to understand. To the Cooks of this country 'Democracy' means that they're in charge. They have no intention of governing by our constitution which to them is a hendrance.
"Free trade works well in theory and sometimes works well in practice. However, it only works in practice when both sides are working in good faith."
Staic. That's the definitiion of a free market.
Ted Rall is a supporter of Russian Imperialist wars. That is a surprise to no one whatsoever.
Hes a jackalope
He thought we were invading afghanistan over natural gas
When has Trump ever liked unions.
Maybe you should pull your head out of your ass to see who spoke at the RNC last year, and was shunned by the DNC. Or his recent comments about the impending longshoreman strike.
Whoa, what an astonishing discovery! But only a Marxist would think that new elites with better hair would fix that problem.
Trump's only scorecard is the stock market. So long as it keeps going up it means he's winning. If the US actually starts to deport hundreds of thousands of people, or slap inane tarriffs on Canada, etc. and the stock market tanks Trump will scapegoat one of the sycophants and change course. I think there's a good chance he takes credit for a Gaza cease fire, gets Ukraine to cede the territory Putin already snatched, cuts more taxes, pardons the insurrectionists, and then just plays golf for the next few years.
Is there anything faker then the "Progessive" support for the working class and the poor. Like Bernie Sanders, they talk a good game, and haven't done anything for 40 years. The bottom line is they'll support the Corporate big Business Democrat over a populist Republican every time. Again look as Sanders, he's just playing a con game.
And the same is true of Free Trade and the whole "invade the world invite philosphy" philosophy. Progressives will nit-pick and utter a few words of criticism about "big corporations" and "out sourcing" blah de blah. But that's it. Look at Roger Moore. Look at how fake his whole "I hate Big Corporations and support the workers" position was. He loves billionaries and big corporations - if they support Democrats.
That's a good op-ed!
I would just add that Trump has always been a moderate Republican. So much of the vitriol is about his tone and style. But his ideology is hardly far right. He's stolen several ideas from the Democrats. They should applaud him for it and encourage more of that. It would certainly be a change of pace from the 2-minute hates that go on and on and on...
A bit over 25 years ago Ted Rall sued my friend Danny Hellman for $1.5 million. Hellman, a cartoonist and illustrator in NYC, had perpetrated an online practical joke on Rall, creating the (fictional) appearance that prominent NY publishing personages were appalled at Rall's article. Danny's jape was in response to an attack by Ted Rall on prominent NY-based cartoonist Art Spiegelman (MAUS), in an article published in the VILLAGE VOICE. Rall's initial attack article and Danny's response became a cause celebre in the community of NYC cartoonists. Interested parties can read more about the initial brouhaha in this article.
One can read about the legal fight Rall mounted here and here.
The whole thing went on for a couple of years, but the suit eventually died without resolution when Rall's attorney died (from natural causes).
Er...here is the article describing "the initial brouhaha" in the article I referred to above.
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