Source: Foreign Policy In Focus
by Van Jackson
“The revolution may not be televised, but the counter-revolution sure will be. In this new political era, the dominant military power in the capitalist world-system is ruled by a Venn Diagram of baddies: ethnonationalists, oligarchs, tech bros, and national security hawks. These elites take their opportunity to direct state power from the legitimacy afforded a single man. One of the only common elements about the diverse (but majority white and male) votes cast for Donald Trump is that they all saw Washington liberal elites as the enemy. To put it differently, Trump voters were against one set of ruling-class elites and so cast their vote for a man who has surrounded himself with a different cadre of ruling-class elites, all of whom seem to fashion themselves as enemies of the previous dominant set.” (11/26/24)