Socialdem. 21st Century

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.

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See here.This political collapse of libertarianism, quasi-libertarian and traditional consensus neoliberal economics in the GOP is the unnoticed story of the last year.Now it may well be that Gary Johnson’s third party Libertarian run for president might attract more voters than usual (maybe all those Bernie Bros who are stoners?), but the pathetic Libertarian party has no chance of ever winning the presidency, and not just because one of the highlights of their Party National Convention was...

From Raheel Raza:[embedded content]Time to stop lying, leftists. Stop being cowards.