Category: Populists, Page 156

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  • The COVID Class War Heats Up

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 18th 2021 12:51pm EDT

    Michael Lind is always a delight to read. He is from Texas. He is an economic progressive. He also reflexively writes from a historical perspective like I do. This is a great take on what is going on with contemporary progressivism, the lockdowns which devastated the economy and the realignment of the two parties. Tablet […]

  • Poll: American Democracy Only Caters To The Rich and Powerful

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 17th 2021 5:32pm EDT

    The division in this country is inflamed and exaggerated by the media. American Survey Center: “The surge in partisan polarization in America has made it a rarity that Democrats and Republicans could ever find common ground on an issue. However, data from the new January 2021 American Perspectives Survey (APS) reveals one important area where […]

  • Joe’s Border Crisis

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 17th 2021 1:15pm EDT

    The Biden administration came in guns blazing and delivered on their promise to merge immigration policy with wokeness, open borders, multiple amnesties and leftwing slogans like “Abolish ICE.” Reuters: “The poll findings, based on surveys conducted before and after Donald Trump’s presidency, show that Republicans are becoming more unified around the former president’s hardline views […]

  • Poll: Stimulus Checks Are The Most Popular Part Of The COVID Relief Bill

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 17th 2021 11:35am EDT

    ICYMI: Watch @samstein break down the @politico/@MorningConsult poll results on @Morning_Joe. https://t.co/tatofbev0I pic.twitter.com/IWDV6cyaTh — POLITICO Press (@POLITICOPress) March 17, 2021 Democratic and Republican Voters Agree: Direct Payments Are Most Popular Part of $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Package https://t.co/WOqNfc4hea via @byclairew pic.twitter.com/6hJYCmopdU — Morning Consult (@MorningConsult) March 17, 2021 According to political strategist Karl Rove, Republican and […]

  • Democrats Can’t Duck The Culture War

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 17th 2021 9:36am EDT

    Thomas Edsall thinks that Joe Biden and the Democrats can somehow duck the culture war now after intentionally dialing it up a thousand notches over the past four years. New York Times: “The Biden administration appears to have adopted a two-pronged strategy to reduce the corrosive impact of hot-button social, cultural and racial issues: first […]

  • Tucker Carlson Goes To El Salvador

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 16th 2021 9:06pm EDT

    Donald Trump is no longer president. Trump voters, however, still control the Republican Party. 64% of Trump voters now say their racial identity is “very, extremely or somewhat” important to their sense of identity while only 17% of Trump voters say it is not important at all. 90% of Republican voters are opposed to Joe […]

  • Karl Rove: People Don’t Even WANT $1,400 Checks!

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 16th 2021 7:52pm EDT

    LMAO. Who supports $1,400 checks? We know exactly who the Republicans are who support the $1,400 checks. It is the “Right Populists.” The people who are opposed to it the strongest are the Never Trump True Cons or Free Marketeers and to a somewhat lesser degree what used to be the old Republican base before […]

  • The Trump Bump Is Over

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 16th 2021 3:27pm EDT

    Poor Don Lemon. He has a new book out about “racism.” No one is watching his show anymore though. Time: “Don Lemon, host of CNN’s Tonight with Don Lemon, has become a familiar voice of the day’s news. In his new book, This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism, Lemon weaves little-known moments […]

  • My Top Five Issues

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 16th 2021 2:22pm EDT

    I’ve spent the last two months analyzing polls. After taking a long break from politics, my interest in the subject returned with a vengeance when Donald Trump exited the White House. I’ve spent the last two months of the Biden era analyzing all of these polls trying to grasp the contours of the post-Trump political […]

  • National Review: The Populist Dilemma on Free Speech and Cancel Culture

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 16th 2021 1:14pm EDT

    “Behold a republic in which civil and religious liberty stimulate all to earnest endeavor and in which the law restrains every hand uplifted for a neighbor’s injury – a republic in which every citizen is a sovereign, but in which no one cares to wear a crown.” – William Jennings Bryan Baseball Crank thinks there […]

  • DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: We’re Facing The Worst Border Crisis In Twenty Years

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 16th 2021 11:08am EDT

    The “accelerationists” were right. FOX News: “Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday said that the U.S. is on track to encounter more migrants than it has in the last 20 years, as he defended the administration’s approach to a border surge that he described as “difficult” – but again fell short of calling it a crisis. “The situation at […]

  • FOX News Is Trying To Win Back The Red Dogs

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 16th 2021 9:55am EDT

    This appears to be the strategy. I don’t think it is a bad strategy in light of what Joe is doing. FOX News is trying to appeal to Trumpists with political correctness/wokeness and immigration and Red Dogs with fiscal conservatism. There is enough there for both of these factions to be pissed off with the […]

  • The Rad Con Future

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 15th 2021 7:52pm EDT

    Here are my thoughts: In 2021, the Republican Party is two parties. It is the Trump Party and the Republican Party. Republican voters are split about 50/50 between people who identify more as traditional Republicans and Trump supporters. The strongest Republican voters are now the newcomers. Approximately half of the Republican Party is what I […]

  • David Shor and The Mathematics Of Winning Elections

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 15th 2021 5:38pm EDT

    David Shor has been making the rounds lately. It seems that people on the Right are more interested in what he has to say and less interested in canceling him than his fellow progressives. They drive away all kinds of people with that shit.

  • The Atlantic: Prosperity Over Vengeance

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 15th 2021 9:40am EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. If this is the message of the Democrats, they are doomed. The Atlantic: “Donald Trump was a punishment. Conservatives saw him that way, and Trump saw himself that way, too. After his upset victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, some conservatives started to respond to […]

  • Jacobin: Is America Too Racist For Social Democracy?

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 14th 2021 9:17pm EDT

    Editor’s Note: He is a paid shill like all the rest of them. In case you missed Brooklyn Dad’s Bernie Bro meltdown. pic.twitter.com/TpeWG5hGzp — Watchdog (@demswatchdog) March 14, 2021 President Biden is ready to kick that azzzzzz. — BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) August 21, 2020 I wish Bernie would just cut the crap and drop out already. […]

  • How The Democrats Screwed Their Voters

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 14th 2021 5:57pm EDT

    Ok I did it pic.twitter.com/SJPOlpbFuN — Sadie Farrell ? ?????? (@Marusya_1312) March 14, 2021 This is kook shit. None of these people have ever been to Syria let alone could accurately inform you on the conflict. To be this obsessed over a single chemical weapons attack out of hundreds during a now 10 year long […]

  • Jonathan Capehart Blasts Sen. Tim Scott Over “Woke Supremacy” Comment

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 14th 2021 4:30pm EDT

    Only a fool would say ‘woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy’ https://t.co/Jloph3jCcF — Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) March 13, 2021 LMAO. Woke supremacy is real though. There are also woke blacks, lib blacks, bugmen blacks or professional blacks like Don Lemon and Jonathan Capehart. This is a real thing.

  • Poll: Joe’s Immigration Achilles Heel

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 14th 2021 3:17pm EDT

    As I was saying, the good will and points that Joe is scoring on handling COVID and delivering the $1,400 stimmy and child tax credit will be given back on the way that he is handling immigration. It will also be given back on political correctness/wokeness and cancel culture. CBS News: Joe’s true level of […]

  • The True Con Era Is Over

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 14th 2021 10:50am EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. Now that the True Cons era is over, we can look back on the Reagan era Republican Party and conservative movement and see what was wrong with it. These people ruled the roost for half a century. The Free Marketeers were the governing wing of the Republican […]

  • Poll: The True Con

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 14th 2021 9:08am EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. The new Fabrizio Lee polls tells us a lot about the composition of the post-Trump Republican Party and confirms what we have seen in other recent polls. Republican establishment voters are now the disaffected wing of the party and have declined to 15% of Republican voters. Fabrizio […]

  • Poll: QAnon Is Exaggerated

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 13th 2021 9:59pm EST

    I will dive more into this poll tomorrow. In the meantime, this is an interesting finding. Fabrizio Lee:

  • Jacobin: No, Joe Biden Won’t Give Us Social Democracy

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 13th 2021 2:14pm EST

    Right-wing Clubhouse chats: endless series of torturously self-critical marathon sessions on how decadent and ineffectual the Conservative Movement is Left-wing Clubhouse chats: endless series of racially segregated marathon sessions ranking the oppressions of identity groups — Michael Tracey (@mtracey) March 13, 2021 It’s very important for entry into the Democratic Party professional class to require […]

  • Insurrectionists Resume Attacks On Portland Federal Courthouse

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 12th 2021 8:54pm EST

    Look at ’em go! The brats are the literal embodiment of white privilege. Have you ever wondered how they manage to get away with this? If you went out and did something this, could you get away with it? Would your mom come out and support you engaging in criminal activity? Note: If they continue […]

  • Reclaiming Social Justice

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 12th 2021 8:09pm EST

    The new banner features Gerald L.K. Smith, Father Charles Coughlin and Dr. Francis Townsend who carried on the fight against FDR, Wall Street and the Jewish warmongers after Huey Long’s assassination in 1935. Coughlin was canceled by the Jews for opposing American intervention in World War II. At some point, I plan to tune out […]