/129/ The Right Is Weak ft. Corey Robin

The more and more I think about this episode, I grow more and more scared of any possible leftist movement growing out of the West. Neither here or the newly found Reddit have had any discussion on this episode. I can't speak for all y'all but I heard only the truth from his mouth. And that's why I'm speechless in many regards. Nothing made his points more obvious than Trump saying that day that he would be open to talking to Maduro, after Biden accused Trump of being soft on Maduro, and how Biden would get justice for Venezuela. Trump would later walk this back, but he's had a career so far of accidentally going to the left. Remember when Kim Kardashian enacted criminal justice reform? I digress, they are a reactionary bunch. Who are no longer a monolith of the Prescott Bush Republicans, or even the GW Bush Republicans. They are weaker in ways than they have been in decades, perhaps since realignment. But, electorally their downfall has raised with the popularity of "bipartisanship" which flourished during the 90s and early 2000s. Think of how many Republicans and Democrats have won successful campaigns on their bipartisanship. So have we won or have the goal posts just been moved to where we think winning is when we score for them? I ask, because all month, I've heard those on the left and right talk about how the left has won the culture wars and are essentially looking for a master to rebel against, and in many aspects, I agree with that thought. So if we've won culturally and the right is at its weakest, why does being a leftist feel hopeless, outside of abolishing the police and electoral politics, not that those are hopeful, just not hopeless. Has the neoliberal order just absorbed and redirected the wins against the right, where idpol is no longer a way to build solidarity among the working class like it was in the 60s but as a narrative fantasy to push capitalism into a meritocracy in the minds of many people. To continue to justify the existence of capitalism, this idea that we can all be Beyonce if we weren't being discriminated against, needs to sold, and at the moment it is. So while the conservatives have in many ways ceded power, I would say that neoliberalism is now a bigger threat to the left since fascism in the 30s, not because it looks to stomp the fires of the left out, but because it attempts to suffocate the fire, by stealing all of its air. Even after the win last night of Bowman, electoralism as the answer just seems like we're scoring points for the other team and thinking it's ours. Sorry for ranting.

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