So, very soon we'll know if it's #trump or #kamalaharris for president.

As a European, I wonder if it might be better *for us* with Trump - it would be worse for the US, but it would make the US lose relevance, globally - this incompetent idiot as prez could be a step towards the end of the American Empire. And that would be a good thing.

However ... if I was an American I'd definitely NOT vote for Trump. Harris may not be a lot better (she's the status quo after all), but she IS better.

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@naomiaklein @pluralistic

I make this observation because while reading the book I was kind of waiting for this point to be made ... of some Democrats' tremendous own goal attacking Trump for being the traitor and Russian spy he's not instead of as the right-wing populist he actually is. Like ... I wonder what the connection between that kind of "centrist" insanity/orhodoxy (think TINA, War on Drugs etc.) and COVID-style conspiracies is, at the end of the day.

@naomiaklein @pluralistic

Just like the tendency to blame the "white working class" for Trump's victory. In actuality, the white working class was under-represented among the Trump voters.

Why did these centrists supposedly all defending "reason" go down that rabbit hole? Maybe it is and was too painful to recognize that business as usual and dynastic entitlement (and "lean in" feminism) is not what the US needs right now. What it needed at the time was Bernie Sanders.

@naomiaklein @pluralistic

Relevant for the idea of "lean in" feminism and allowing women and minorities in board rooms, I'm currently based in the UK (normally, Denmark) and the government here is a case in point: Is Rishi Sunak as PM a victory for anti-racism and inclusivity?

No, that's not a victory for anything. Sunak may be non-white, but what matters is that he's *posh*. Inclusivity would, in the UK, mean letting people in who are not upper class. More precisely, who are not *rich:*.