Category: Populists, Page 159
The Brats Are Coming
Occidental Dissent - Feb 15th 2021 1:09pm ESTWe’re counting on them. They are highly skilled in the arts of aggravating, alienating and tormenting everyone around them, talking about themselves and virtue signaling on social media. We’re going to paint a gigantic political bullseye on them. Nothing is more unifying than shared hatred of these people. New York Times: “What happened in Peru, […]
Libertarians: You Will Be Very Sorry When We Are Gone
Occidental Dissent - Feb 15th 2021 11:51am ESTAre you kidding? Do these people have any idea how many people have been repulsed and alienated by their dominance in the Republican Party? There isn’t a bigger electoral albatross than the libertarian oligarchs. American Greatness: “A recent guest column in the Dallas Morning News offers new evidence that Conservatism, Inc. is bent on destroying conservative populism. The […]
Arrogant Coastal Elites Have Lost Their Power To Define The “Mainstream”
Occidental Dissent - Feb 15th 2021 12:23am ESTNew: by rejecting consequences for Trump for the #CapitolRiots & welcoming #MarjorieTaylorGreene into their caucus Congressional Rs are crystalizing an ominous question: Has the extremist wing of the GOP coalition grown too big for the party to confront?https://t.co/JyATDSSXsc— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 14, 2021 “Ah, my friends, we say not one word against those who […]
Jacobin: Capitalism Has Failed the Rural Working Class
Occidental Dissent - Feb 14th 2021 5:22pm ESTNo shit. We live in a wasteland of Walmarts and Dollar Generals. Why doesn’t the Heartland Working Class vote for the Democrats? Turn on CNN or MSNBC and listen to those people for about ten minutes. It is because of the White upper middle class professional wing of the party and their toxic culture war […]
Politico: Mitch McConnell’s Next Chapter
Occidental Dissent - Feb 14th 2021 2:25pm ESTWe are ruled by politicians who are on the cusp of senility. Politico: “Mitch McConnell voted to acquit Donald Trump, then publicly torched him — encapsulating the dilemma of the man who now must guide a GOP riven by infighting over whether it’s the party of Trump or the center-right party he wants them to […]
The Party of Lincoln
Occidental Dissent - Feb 14th 2021 12:06pm EST
Does Right Populism Exist?
Occidental Dissent - Feb 14th 2021 1:31am EST
How Stable Is The Democratic Coalition?
Occidental Dissent - Feb 13th 2021 7:56pm ESTEric Kaufmann isn’t a fool. He is one of my favorite authors. It was Kaufmann who sparked my interest in the history of modernism which I spent several months writing about last year. New York Times: “Democrats are riding high in Washington, with control of the White House and Congress. They got there with a […]
Trump Acquitted
Occidental Dissent - Feb 13th 2021 5:42pm ESTWhat exactly was accomplished by this charade? It was never realistically going to happen. It was performance art politics and a complete waste of time. It inflamed and unified Trump’s base. It confirmed Trump’s control over the Republican Party. It stepped all over Joe’s first 100 days by dragging out the Trump Show. It increased […]
Authentic Populism
Occidental Dissent - Feb 13th 2021 1:08pm ESTEditor’s Note: This is a response to some recent comments. I’m feeling bullish. I’ve been methodically laying out my case based on Pew typology surveys, Voter Study Group reports, shifts in the polls, the resorting of the electorate and the shift of the balance of power in the GOP. We can start with this recent […]
Biden Justice Department Continues To Persecute Julian Assange
Occidental Dissent - Feb 13th 2021 10:14am ESTDonald Trump wasn’t any better on this front. Instead of pardoning Julian Assange and his own supporters like the QAnon Shaman and Baked Alaska who got themselves in trouble for his sake, Trump pardoned Kwame Kilpatrick, Lil Wayne and Kodak Black and a bunch of other scummy people with connections to Jared Kushner. New York […]
CNBC Poll: Republicans Want Trump To Remain Head of the Party
Occidental Dissent - Feb 13th 2021 9:28am ESTThe party of Jeff Flake is dead as a doornail. CNBC: “A CNBC survey conducted in the days before former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial finds a large share of Republicans want him to remain head of their party, but a majority of Americans want him out of politics. The CNBC All-America Economic Survey shows 54% of Americans […]
GOP Exodus
Occidental Dissent - Feb 12th 2021 5:32pm ESTThe good news keeps rolling in. New York Times: “In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations. In California, more than 33,000 registered […]
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Has Embraced Neoliberal Joe
Occidental Dissent - Feb 12th 2021 1:06pm ESTGood riddance. This is a huge win for Republicans. Politico: “Washington’s most powerful trade group is having a political identity crisis. Over the past month, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has taken a series of steps that have enraged its traditional Republican allies. It applauded much of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan to Covid […]
TAC: Conservatives Need A Pro-Family Agenda Beyond Tax Credits
Occidental Dissent - Feb 12th 2021 10:21am ESTThumbs up. TAC: “All of these pushes faced strong political headwinds from self-proclaimed conservative gatekeepers at the time. But the post-Trump landscape is opening up new possibilities for ideas once thought heterodox. The recent introduction of Senator Mitt Romney’s “Family Security Act”—which would provide a universal child allowance for all families, regardless of income—was an […]
Tucker Carlson: Oligarchs Want To Shut Down FOX News
Occidental Dissent - Feb 12th 2021 9:25am ESTFascinating comments about Fox News just now from Fox CO Lachlan Murdoch: “We believe that where we are targeted, to the center-right, is where we should be targeted. We don’t believe we should go further right… and absolutely we won’t go to the left.”— Alex Weprin (@alexweprin) February 9, 2021 There is only so far […]
The GOP Should Start Acting Like a Working Class Party
Occidental Dissent - Feb 11th 2021 2:56pm ESTThis is also my take. There has been a dramatic resorting of the electorate. Some White working class Independents and Democrats are now Republicans. Meanwhile, some suburban Republicans have now gone over to the Democrats. The PMC ratio in the Republican Party isn’t what it used to be. The voters have changed. The rhetoric and […]
Neoliberal Joe Ends Border National Emergency
Occidental Dissent - Feb 11th 2021 1:24pm ESTJoe is already off to a great start doubling down on all of the mistakes of Barack Obama’s second term that sent MAGA voters fleeing into Donald Trump’s arms. Politico: “President Joe Biden on Thursday formally terminated former President Donald Trump’s two-year-old declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, calling the order by […]
The Next Huey Long
Occidental Dissent - Feb 11th 2021 11:09am EST
Reuters: Dozens of Former Republican Officials In Talks To Form True Cons Third Party
Occidental Dissent - Feb 11th 2021 12:22am ESTThis is fantastic news. It is the best news since that poll came out which showed 64% of Trump voters now believe that their race is very, extremely or somewhat important to their identity. Reuters: “(Reuters) – Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald […]
House Impeachment Manager Chokes Up Recounting Capitol Siege
Occidental Dissent - Feb 10th 2021 6:44pm ESTImpeachment manager / actor Madeleine Dean’s weepy voice-quivering comes across as particularly calculated— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) February 10, 2021 Because the “emoting” is always ultimately a power play, even if unconsciously. It’s intended to place primacy on their “experience” for the purpose of demanding compensation, whether it be via cultural cache or various political outcomeshttps://t.co/G91MPEZ179— […]
Globalist Joe Imposes Sanctions On Myanmar
Occidental Dissent - Feb 10th 2021 5:47pm ESTI would love to see a poll on this issue. How many Joe Biden voters can find Myanmar on a map? I’m among the 3% of the population who knows the answer. I don’t give a shit about what is going on there. It is none of my concern.
GOP Eyes Working Class Future
Occidental Dissent - Feb 10th 2021 5:02pm ESTI used to laugh at the idea of a multiracial, working class, populist Republican Party. I thought there is no way that something like that could work. I’m not so sure now though. Axios: “Republicans, long reliant on big business and the rich, see a post-Trump future centered on working class white, Hispanic and Black […]
Axios: GOP Eyes Working Class Future
Occidental Dissent - Feb 10th 2021 5:02pm ESTI used to laugh at the idea of a multiracial, working class, populist Republican Party. I thought there is no way that something like that could work. I’m not so sure now though. Axios: “Republicans, long reliant on big business and the rich, see a post-Trump future centered on working class white, Hispanic and Black […]
Poll: Trump Voters Control The GOP
Occidental Dissent - Feb 10th 2021 2:24pm EST
