by His victory speech, which was very gracious indeed:[embedded content]As we can see here, Trump won the key states of Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, the last four of which form part of that area of the country badly hit by deindustrialisation and free trade.Unlike other people on the left who are hysterical over this (I have people on my Facebook feed telling me fascism has come to the US), I am cautiously optimistic, since this is quite clearly a massive blow against neoliberal globalisation.If Trump does even half of what he promised on economic issues, our current neoliberal order is at an end, and this is a very good thing indeed.In the next few days, lots of questions need to be asked:(1) how was it that the polls used by the mainstream media were so wrong?(2) how can people take the mainstream US media seriously given how outrageously biased and corrupt they were in colluding with the Clinton campaign?(3) will the left finally accept the disaster of mass immigration and the danger of the Islamisation of the Western world?(4) will the left finally accept that the regressive left is insane and that the vicious left-wing culture of political correctness is dangerous and a major reason for this?Over the next few days and weeks, the left will pretend that this stunning victory by Trump only had to do with working class anger over austerity, or
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As we can see here, Trump won the key states of Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, the last four of which form part of that area of the country badly hit by deindustrialisation and free trade.
Unlike other people on the left who are hysterical over this (I have people on my Facebook feed telling me fascism has come to the US), I am cautiously optimistic, since this is quite clearly a massive blow against neoliberal globalisation.
If Trump does even half of what he promised on economic issues, our current neoliberal order is at an end, and this is a very good thing indeed.
In the next few days, lots of questions need to be asked:
(1) how was it that the polls used by the mainstream media were so wrong?Over the next few days and weeks, the left will pretend that this stunning victory by Trump only had to do with working class anger over austerity, or globalisation, or free trade.(2) how can people take the mainstream US media seriously given how outrageously biased and corrupt they were in colluding with the Clinton campaign?
(3) will the left finally accept the disaster of mass immigration and the danger of the Islamisation of the Western world?
(4) will the left finally accept that the regressive left is insane and that the vicious left-wing culture of political correctness is dangerous and a major reason for this?
Now these issues are certainly part of the explanation, but unless the left accepts and deals with the reality of (3) and (4), the left is finished. It will implode all over the West, especially in Europe.
This populist right-wing surge will spread to Europe next and it is far from over.
But to return to Trump. Think of it: Trump was opposed by
1. The GOP elite in favour of globalisationAnd yet he still won. WOW.
2. the warmongering Neoconservative elite in favour of globalisation and endless war
3. the corporate neoliberal elite in favour of free trade and globalisation
4. Wall Street in favour of globalisation
5. the media in favour of globalisation
6. vast numbers of pundits and intellectuals in favour of globalisation
7. the Democratic party elite in favour of globalisation
8. the mainstream left in favour of globalisation, and
9. the regressive left.
Already, the hysteria and meltdown of the pro-free trade neoliberal elite that I’ve seen is just a joy to watch.
As far as I am concerned – even if Trump is massively disappointing as president – at this moment in time Donald J. Trump is magnificent.
As I have already said, I am cautiously optimistic, and – if you are left-wing and capable of thinking rationally – you should be too, because this is a death sentence for neoliberalism and a tremendous opportunity for the left to reform itself and purge itself of neoliberalism, multiculturalism, and regressive left insanity. And whatever harm a Republican US Congress may do can eventually be reversed if the American Left gets its act together and purges these grotesque, corrupt, corporate shills and criminals like Hillary Clinton from its leadership.
Finally, this is why we need an Alternative Left now more than ever: