Brian wrote
>
> One thing stands out to me: Bernie Sanders could have swept last
> night's election. The establishment consensus of the hypocritical
> oligarchies has to be cleared entirely away, in favor of a new
> social-democratic populism with the governing capacities required to
> transform
Hello,
(couldn’t hold myself back from this discussion)
Trump represents and is the embodiment of the neo-fascist architype all too
common in American culture: well defined in Sinclair Lewis' "In Can't Happen
Here" or in Penn Warren's "All the King's Men" - the proverbial snake oil
salesman
Hi Thomas
our discussion may seem redundant at times of depressing world
political events. However, let me nevertheless explain a bit where I
am coming from. You insinuate that I just wrote this posting to
'advertise' my book, not taking into consideration that I may have
other motivations as
Let me add. Trump's electoral majority, like all Republican electoral majori=
ties for years, depended on the southern states' white voters who have never=
fully moved past their hatred of integration.=20
Best,
Michael
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> On Nov 9, 2016, at 3:48 PM, Michael Goldhaber
On 11/09/2016 05:48 PM, Michael Goldhaber wrote:
In fact, Hillary won a plurality of the popular vote, with probably a
larger margin than Gore in 2000, once the California tally becomes final
in a few days (absentee ballots mailed on election day have three days
to arrive and still be counted).
Brian and others,
Now is a time for painful gnashing of teeth, moaning , and beating of chests in
despair. All that I can agree with...
It may feel fine to come up with the instant analysis you’ve been nurturing,
most probably, for quite a while, but it starts off factually wrong. The
