Hayward on ‘Extremism and Moderation’ in the GOP
…It was 2015 that Trumpism replaced the Tea Party, though Michael Lind in the Breakthrough Journal had predicted something like this the year before. The Tea Party revived Goldwater’s rhetoric,…
…It was 2015 that Trumpism replaced the Tea Party, though Michael Lind in the Breakthrough Journal had predicted something like this the year before. The Tea Party revived Goldwater’s rhetoric,…
…as Michael Lind called out as early as 2014, before Trump made his appearance. He called the two alliances ‘liberaltarians’, or ‘densitarians’, which favor means-tested programs, and would include both…
…it might not be possible to fully detach Sam Francis’ political worldview from the white nationalism, which the The New Republic has noted over the years Michael Lind’s 1995 book,…
…the distinctiveness of American regions. The New Deal, often thought of by conservatives as a time of centralization, favored Regionalism in its WPA art programs, according to Michael Lind in…
…became national languages through their education systems, for example. The United States is a cultural entity, with subvarieties, as Michael Lind [yes, him again!] explains in his work The Next…
…the Anglo minority community from everyone else? In 2014 Michael Lind predicted that social conservatism would fade away and that politics would align on the basis of the lower and…
The United States on the whole has seen a rather sudden pivot, or so it seemed, of ‘conservatism’ from a coalition of religious or moral conservatives, economic conservatives [the latter…
Michael Lind is one of the most perceptive political and social observers of our time. He ‘scooped’ the Trump revolution, as I have said, before Trump even declared himself a…
…Blacks and Latinos can become a force. I have already posted on Michael Lind’s paper of 2014 [before the rise of Trump] predicting a new alignment after the disappearance of…
…contests such as California’s Proposition 8.] And, if Michael Lind has declared, the ‘social issues’ are off the table now, why would not a possible future look somewhat like the…