The Left Is Now the Right(taibbi.substack.com)
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The Left Is Now the Right
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-left-is-now-the-right
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Maybe folks on "the right" would do well to realize that there is no monolithic left. This mistake comes up time after time, with folks on "the right" mistaking hashtags for movements, mistaking flash mobs for cults, and mistaking alternative lifestyles for unified attempts to change the course of society. Race realism is not a left-vs-right issue, but a settled matter of science: There's only one human race, and race realists are wrong.
I find it really hard to care about The Left being mad at billionaires for saying mean things, when The Right is currently deploying anonymous federal troops in our cities and kidnapping people off of the street. Like, way to miss the mark on priorities here.
"Left" and "right" is best left as an economic axis: do you want economic power to be more or less concentrated? It is largely accidental which issues get bundled together.
The mathematics of social choice practically force political parties to put together a set of issues. Back in the 1970 things were in ferment: Jesse Jackson was talking to Republicans because the Democrats had been the "Southern White Party" for 100 years. The national democratic party was dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing about civil rights and Nixon realized that was an opportunity for the Republicans. People forget that Jimmy Carter was our first evangelical president because the "right" managed to collapse all of the issues around faith and morality to a single issue that he was on the "wrong" side of.
Much like the 1960-1980 time saw a major political realignment, we are in the middle of a realignment now.