Those who worried about fascism were looking to the past to understand the present; this is equally true of someone like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose horizon of aspiration is visible in her attachment to the idea of the New Deal, even if modernized with the prefix “Green.” It is telling that in an interview published in the/Times/of November 8 she said that if she couldn’t make headway against the Democratic machinery she might well leave politics to “homestead,” an ideal as backward-looking (though quite understandable) as the wish for increased party-politics democracy. A stagnating economy, with less to be divided between the 1% and everybody else, means that the wished-for popular coalition for social democracy is as much a pipedream as the wish of American farmers, expressed in their support for Trump, that the nonstop concentration of industrial farming, along with the rapid degradation of the environment, can be held back by the old-time community values of white small-business owners.
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