Socialdem. 21st Century

See Trump’s call for at least a $500 billion program of government spending on US infrastructure here and here, without raising taxes. See the video here.Yes, it’s massive deficits for the US if Trump wins, and massive Keynesian stimulus, even if his tax cut plan is regressive like that of Reagan.

The US Democrats and their apologists in the media are in an uproar about Trump’s comments about the Muslim Khizr Khan, whose son died in the Iraq war. This spat between Trump and Khan is ongoing.Maybe the Democrats would like to revisit the history of their elder stateswoman Madeleine Albright in this comment from 1996?:[embedded content]It doesn’t even matter whether the excess deaths caused by the US sanctions on Iraq were about 50,000, 100,000, 200,000 or 500,000. The very notion that a...

When things like this happen to a woman in broad daylight.Or things like this, this, this, this, this, and this.I have a fairly shrewd idea of what is going on:[embedded content]And, no, I certainly *don’t* agree with everything said here, but there seems to be enough there that is true to be deeply concerned.Update Since I already have a commentator below who wants to believe that Sweden’s rape problem only has to do with Sweden’s broad definition of rape, no, this is clearly not...

Right here. Except this libertarian idiot connects Keynesianism to Herbert Hoover, which demonstrates, if nothing else, how libertarians never seem to get anything right.Apparently Trump did an interview recently where he said this:“Mr. Trump himself said in a telephone interview last week that he believed more borrowing and spending would help lift economic growth, a departure from traditional Republican economics.‘It’s called priming the pump,’ Mr. Trump said. ‘Sometimes you have to do...

Turkey is now threatening Europe: see here and here. In essence: if the EU does not grant visa-free travel for Turkish nationals, Turkey will open the floodgates.The Turkish Foreign Minister is basically giving the EU two choices: (1) submit to allowing visa-free travel for millions of Turks, which will be a security nightmare for Europe (since it will allow a backdoor into Europe from the whole Middle East via fake passports) and cause a tidal wave of illegal immigration, with disastrous...

... and threatens to pull out of the WTO. [embedded content]Strange, it’s almost as if – at least compared to the Democrats – he is turning into the left-wing candidate on economics in this election.

The news today is full of Trump’s spat with Khizr Khan, who appeared at the Democratic national convention and who was the father of an American Muslim soldier who died in Iraq.Here is what Trump said:[embedded content]This has caused a media storm of hysteria, even though I think Trump’s comments are pretty subdued by his standards, and there is an obvious issue that really stinks here: Democratic and American liberal hypocrisy.So let’s run through the list of Hillary and Obama’s record:(1)...

See here:Michael Lind, “The Neocons Are Responsible for Trumpism,” The National Interest, March 7, 2016.Rod Dreher, “Trump: Tribune of Poor White People,” The American Conservative, July 22, 2016.Michael Lind, “How Trump Exposed the Tea Party,” PoliticoMagazine, September 3, 2015.Michael Lind, “Donald Trump, the Perfect Populist,” PoliticoMagazine, March 9, 2016.I was particularly struck by Dreher’s article here, which describes the real and terrible experience of white working class...

No, the one **on the left.** Yes, this is the new propaganda line over at the Weekly Standard, Neocon Central.Seriously, dudes, Neoconservatism is dead. Get over it.

See the interview here.