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   simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 12:50:48 JST simsa03
   If you're looking for an early description of this peculiar U.S. fascism now prevalent in the GOP and MAGA, you can find it here:
   
   Tom Junod, “The Sore Winners: Will America’s Super Minority Sink Us All?” (Esquire, October 27, 2010) https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a8800/sore-winners-102710/
   
   And if you want to know how today's "Hillbilly" J.D. Vance and the white-working-class-victimization-turned-angry-and-spiteful crowd fits into the above mentioned beginnings of the Tea Party movement, read here:
   
   Meredith McCarroll, "J.D. Vance and the Myth of White Exceptionalism" (New Lines Magazine, January 10, 2023) https://newlinesmag.com/argument/j-d-vance-and-the-myth-of-white-exceptionalism/
   
   #sources
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     anderbill (band@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 21:22:34 JST anderbill

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     @simsa03 thanks for the resources; it is all a bit overwhelming for me, here

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 23:55:33 JST simsa03

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     • anderbill
     I turn to the Junod again and again, as I find it the most perspicacious text dating that far back. The McCarroll piece isn't bad, much in the current fashionabe (and undercomplex) jargon of privilege and group exeptionalism, but the parallels to Junod are interestingly apparant. Reading both with their distance of 13 years rto each other gives a strange view on how undercurrents that first brought up the Tea Party (rather economically well-offs back then) have spread to large partd of today's working class and Trailer Park sections of the population.
     
     It's informative to see that in Trump's presidential campagin of 2016 already rode high on the Anti-NAFTA and anti-globailisation theme, which is why parts of the working class and the trade unions aligned themselves more with T than the Democrats. (See part 2 of my 2016 4-part series on the presidential race https://simsa01.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/why-the-republicans-won-big-in-november-2016-part-2/)
     
     Not much has changed in comparison to 2016 except that the GOP campaign today is run far more professionally and more "light heartedly". The spiteful and dark undertone of the MAGA crowd is far more subdued than in the 2016 and 2020 rallies.
     
     Still, I don't think that te Dems are done, even if Biden stays in the race. (On the contrary: Should Biden stay in the race and manage to fight against both, T and his inner-party critics, he would show far better the stamina he is said to have lost. It's a gamble, yes, but Dems will not win as long as they are so fearful. and overcoming this fear has nothing to do with GOP, T, or MAGA.
     
     I very much appreciate that Bernie Sanders and the House "squad" have refused to campaign against Biden, quite contrary to Sanders' endless attacks on Hillary Clinton in 2016 which then cost her the Swings States and the presidency. That is at least one positive developement withi the Democrats. (And should they nedd to find a new candidate and don't opt for Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar has enough working class credentials in my opinion.)
     
     Really tempting to talk nonsense about the political struggles in the U.S. from afar. Forgive me that I cannot restrain myself. ;-)