You wrote this on Twitter "What Black Americans do significantly affects the United States. Indeed, it's her own, very famous, thesis that this is insignificantly appreciated. In 2016, many Black Americans didn't vote at all. Had they done so, Trump wouldn't be in power."
I do wish to point out that many Trump people I follow were quite happy to "cheer on" the Yellow Vest Rioters in France just over a year and a half ago. When I bring this up in nowadays I get responses along the lines that the Yellow Vests were really "peaceful" protests something which the video I linked to below I think tends to quick disprove.
On the subject of Margaret Thatcher which some have brought up and whom Claire wrote a book about I am going to posit a contrary opinion that Thatcher far more than her counterparts of the time like Kohl, Reagan, and Bush was in some sense a proto-Trumpist whom historians and journalists have covering up the legacy of. Thatcher for example was viscerally opposed to German reunification, any serious form of European federalism, and practiced a very Trumpist "our people" form of politics. I would go as so far to say in regards to German reunification her opposition to Communism was as much directed towards domestic British communists and socialist than a desire to dismantle the Iron Curtain.
One additional comment I will make about Thatcher which could probably be turned into an entire blogpost is it is way too easy and dangerous once you come to a conclusion about someone to assume they must have obviously deep down always have been like that. So from my perspective I take it as a given that by the end of her career and her retirement that Thatcher was deeply Eurosceptic and proto Brexiteer however, it is very dangerous to assume that let's say even back in the 1970s she was and her support of EEC membership in the 1970s was just a show. People can and do change. Where I tend break with the historical consensus is that I don't view the Single Europe Act as a Thatcherite creation(I would actually give Italian PM Craxi credit for it along with Jacques Delors and others) in part as that even by that time she was becoming Eurosceptic(Schengen has already been proposed the year before Single Europe of which Thatcher refused to take part in).
Of all the doomsday scenarios predicted if Trump won 4 years ago, none have come true.
We were told the economy and stock markets would crash. He would start wars everywhere.
Trumps may have bad manners, but he has followed the law except when he mimics Obamas use of executive orders. Obama set that precedent. DACA anyone?
The sky has not fallen with Trump as president and won't fall in the next 4 years if he wins.
As we approach the election, a whole new set of apocalyptic predictions concerning the doom facing our republic if Trump is reelected are arising. Why should we believe those predictions are accurate, when the ones made four years ago by the same people were so off the mark?
While you will be casting your vote for Joe, you're really voting for a Kamala Harris presidency because, clearly, Joe doesn't have the faculties to be president. This will become painfully clear during the presidential debates...if the Dems actually let him get to the podium. If he's elected, it probably won't be 10 months before he resigns (before the Dems resign him).
And, no, I'm not voting for Trump.
Finally, I am connected to you because of your "There Is No Alternative" book. Count me surprised that someone with such an admiring view of Lady Thatcher would vote for Herself Clinton.
Since I’m stuck with choosing between a docile dementia patient and an agitated, belligerent dementia patient, I prefer the former.
Choice suitable for 2020, right?
You wrote this on Twitter "What Black Americans do significantly affects the United States. Indeed, it's her own, very famous, thesis that this is insignificantly appreciated. In 2016, many Black Americans didn't vote at all. Had they done so, Trump wouldn't be in power."
You racist neo-liberal POS.
Thanks for this lucid (and appropriately irreducible) take. Although "take" is too weak a word for the wisdom on display here.
I do wish to point out that many Trump people I follow were quite happy to "cheer on" the Yellow Vest Rioters in France just over a year and a half ago. When I bring this up in nowadays I get responses along the lines that the Yellow Vests were really "peaceful" protests something which the video I linked to below I think tends to quick disprove.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-Al3R9HmwQ&t=132s
On the subject of Margaret Thatcher which some have brought up and whom Claire wrote a book about I am going to posit a contrary opinion that Thatcher far more than her counterparts of the time like Kohl, Reagan, and Bush was in some sense a proto-Trumpist whom historians and journalists have covering up the legacy of. Thatcher for example was viscerally opposed to German reunification, any serious form of European federalism, and practiced a very Trumpist "our people" form of politics. I would go as so far to say in regards to German reunification her opposition to Communism was as much directed towards domestic British communists and socialist than a desire to dismantle the Iron Curtain.
One additional comment I will make about Thatcher which could probably be turned into an entire blogpost is it is way too easy and dangerous once you come to a conclusion about someone to assume they must have obviously deep down always have been like that. So from my perspective I take it as a given that by the end of her career and her retirement that Thatcher was deeply Eurosceptic and proto Brexiteer however, it is very dangerous to assume that let's say even back in the 1970s she was and her support of EEC membership in the 1970s was just a show. People can and do change. Where I tend break with the historical consensus is that I don't view the Single Europe Act as a Thatcherite creation(I would actually give Italian PM Craxi credit for it along with Jacques Delors and others) in part as that even by that time she was becoming Eurosceptic(Schengen has already been proposed the year before Single Europe of which Thatcher refused to take part in).
Of all the doomsday scenarios predicted if Trump won 4 years ago, none have come true.
We were told the economy and stock markets would crash. He would start wars everywhere.
Trumps may have bad manners, but he has followed the law except when he mimics Obamas use of executive orders. Obama set that precedent. DACA anyone?
The sky has not fallen with Trump as president and won't fall in the next 4 years if he wins.
As we approach the election, a whole new set of apocalyptic predictions concerning the doom facing our republic if Trump is reelected are arising. Why should we believe those predictions are accurate, when the ones made four years ago by the same people were so off the mark?
While you will be casting your vote for Joe, you're really voting for a Kamala Harris presidency because, clearly, Joe doesn't have the faculties to be president. This will become painfully clear during the presidential debates...if the Dems actually let him get to the podium. If he's elected, it probably won't be 10 months before he resigns (before the Dems resign him).
And, no, I'm not voting for Trump.
Finally, I am connected to you because of your "There Is No Alternative" book. Count me surprised that someone with such an admiring view of Lady Thatcher would vote for Herself Clinton.