Category: Populists, Page 160
The Conservative Case for a $15 Minimum Age
Occidental Dissent - Feb 18th 2021 4:36pm ESTI support the idea in spirit. I’m not sure if $15 is the right amount for every state in the country. The federal minimum wage needs to be raised though. The ideal should be to have a Universal Basic Income that puts a floor under the working class and a Universal Maximum Income which puts […]
Jacobin: The Politics of a Second Gilded Age
Occidental Dissent - Feb 18th 2021 1:40pm ESTThis is an excellent article. I’ve been thinking along the same lines. There came a point when the parallels with the bitterness and emptiness of Gilded Age politics because so blindingly obvious that it became impossible to ignore. In the last two months, we have witnessed 1.) soaring support for wealth redistribution in the polls, […]
Neoliberal Joe Poised To Walk Into Immigration Disaster
Occidental Dissent - Feb 18th 2021 11:18am ESTI’m not worried about this. It has zero chance of passing a 50/50 Senate. The Trump base is also on fire right now: 65% want to reduce immigration, 62% want to deport illegal aliens, 89% want a federal E-Verify system and 86% want to build a wall. Anyone who votes for this in the House […]
Is It Time For The Republican Party To Split Apart?
Occidental Dissent - Feb 18th 2021 9:33am ESTIt seems unnecessary to me. In 2016, this was the demographics of the National Review audience. True Conservatism was in a demographic death spiral when Trump was elected president. Male – 81.4%Median Age – 66 years oldAges 15-54 – 18% of subscribersHousehold Net Worth over $1 million dollars – 34.4%Household Net Worth over $250,000 – […]
Glenn Greenwald: The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot
Occidental Dissent - Feb 17th 2021 10:10pm ESTWe barely survived the QAnon Shaman and Baked Alaska’s attack on “our democracy.” The “insurrectionists” left the Capitol when asked to do so after walking around, snapping selfies and touring the building. One guy even lit up a joint. The whole thing was over in less than two hours. 1776 didn’t commence again. It was […]
Poll: Most Alabamians, Including Half of GOP, Support Medicaid Expansion
Occidental Dissent - Feb 17th 2021 7:16pm ESTThere is no such thing as “Right Populism.” Right Populist voters are culturally conservative, economically moderate. Their cultural views absorb all the attention of the mainstream media, but these people are actually just populist voters. Al.com: “Most Alabama voters now support expanding Medicaid to cover low-income adults under the Affordable Care Act, including 50.6 percent […]
National Review: Trump vs. McConnell
Occidental Dissent - Feb 17th 2021 5:55pm ESTThe @NRO editorial: Trump v. McConnell https://t.co/eSNaeu19qC— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) February 17, 2021 He’ll be 84. I suspect this is his last term. But he’ll be the GOP Senate leader as long as he wants to be.— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) February 17, 2021 Republican voters DON’T WANT more True Conservatism. National Review: “He blamed McConnell […]
Rush Limbaugh Has Died Of Lung Cancer
Occidental Dissent - Feb 17th 2021 4:31pm ESTRIP Rush Limbaugh. FOX News: “Kathryn Limbaugh, the wife of conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh, announced his death Wednesday on his radio show to his millions of listeners. Limbaugh died Wednesday at 70 years old from complications of lung cancer. He first learned of his cancer diagnosis in Jan. 2020. Former President Donald Trump awarded the […]
Washington Post: The Opportunity For Democrats In The GOP Civil War
Occidental Dissent - Feb 17th 2021 11:33am ESTGreg Sargent makes some good points in this article. The Washington Post: “The rage-addled statement that Donald Trump has fired at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell plunged the GOP into worsening infighting. But as Republicans reacted to the former president’s missive, it also revealed a glaring tension in the story they are telling about his legacy.It’s […]
The End of America First?
Occidental Dissent - Feb 17th 2021 9:16am ESTBrad Griffin joins Richard Spencer for a discussion of the impeachment of Trump, the future of backlash politics within the GOP, and the strange story of Nicholas Fuentes, “America First,” and “Stop the Steal.” N.B.: This podcast was recorded before Trump avoided conviction in the Senate. Listen to “The End of America First?” on Spreaker.
Joe Biden CNN Town Hall
Occidental Dissent - Feb 16th 2021 8:48pm ESTNow watching.
Donald Trump Releases Statement Bashing Mitch McConnell
Occidental Dissent - Feb 16th 2021 5:26pm ESTTrump has already won this fight. The fact that Lindsey Graham went on FOX News and called Mitch an albatross for the GOP in the 2022 midterms signaled it was coming. Hannity returned to the subject last night. Mitch & Co. seemed to have this idea that Trump would fade after losing the election. The […]
Mitt Romney Is Making Moves
Occidental Dissent - Feb 16th 2021 3:36pm ESTMitt Romney has been reprogrammed. National Review: “Among the more amusing developments of the new Congress has been Senator Mitt Romney’s dogged attempts to do his job. Earlier this month, Romney made a deficit-neutral proposal that would provide Americans with cash allowances for every child they have. Today, Romney announced that he and Senator Tom Cotton would be coming forward […]
Nick Fuentes: Trumpism Without Trump
Occidental Dissent - Feb 16th 2021 11:35am ESTNick Fuentes on “Trumpism” without Trump (thread).?: @NickJFuentes pic.twitter.com/KCkhQ2W6ew— America First Reels (@amfirstreels) February 14, 2021 (continued) pic.twitter.com/RzN4UM0Tzf— America First Reels (@amfirstreels) February 14, 2021 (continued) pic.twitter.com/Z1ArbmFyV7— America First Reels (@amfirstreels) February 14, 2021 (continued) pic.twitter.com/2raz7Twits— America First Reels (@amfirstreels) February 14, 2021 There is no such thing as Trumpism. Donald Trump is a narcissist […]
Portland DSA Condemns “Class Reductionism”
Occidental Dissent - Feb 15th 2021 3:51pm EST
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 […]
