08.12.16
The Thomas Frank blues
Matt Taibbi sees the road ahead:
“The problem with all of this is that the Democrats went so far in the direction of advocacy for the global religion that they made something as idiotic as the rise of unabashed nativist Donald Trump possible … And maybe the next strongman those voters pick to lead them out of the wilderness won’t be quite as huge an idiot, or as suicidal a campaigner, as Trump…”
There are a lot of lacerating bits in Taibbi’s piece.
“We never really had a referendum on globalization in America,” he writes. “It just sort of happened. People had jobs one day, then the next morning they were fired, replaced by 14-year-olds in Indonesia …”