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It’s just alienation being vented

Oct 11, 2021

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I couldn’t figure it out in 2016. The guy wasn’t successful running casinos, his TV show was dull, he was a weird combination of elitism and boorishness, a New York City real estate scion who had nothing whatsoever in common with salt-of-the-earth working class people.

How could he be enough of a populist vote-getter to be elected president?

Then: his administration was not successful, policy-wise, and he was impeached twice . . . how could he remain viable as a run-again candidate?

I now believe that the weird phenomenon has a simple explanation: The support of the alienated masses says “fuck you” to the cosmopolitan elites and the mainstream media who so utterly disdain him.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/10/opinions/trump-iowa-rally-gop-embrace-obeidallah/index.html

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Steven Welzer
Steven Welzer

Written by Steven Welzer

A Green Party activist, Steve was an original co-editor of DSA’s “Ecosocialist Review.” He now serves on the Editorial Board of the New Green Horizons webzine.

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