Monday, April 13, 2020

The Real Task Before Us Today

From Thomas Frank, from Harpers:

And so we come to understand the real task before us today: to rescue from the enormous condescension of the comfortable the one political tradition that has a chance of reversing our decades-long turn to the right.
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The whole article (covering, among other things, how the anti-populists attacked Bernie Sanders) is worth reading, and outlines the parallels between the populist campaigns of the late 19th / early 20th century conducted by William Jennings Bryan, and today's elections. 

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