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Matt Karp 🌹🦏🇺🇸

Matt Karp 🌹🦏🇺🇸

@karpmj

I wrote a book on slaveholders & US foreign policy https://t.co/OndcMwuz9G

Katılım Aralık 2010
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With all the final results in, it seems clearer than ever that Trump didn't win the election so much as the Democrats lost it. I wrote one more time in @Harpers about America's socially dominant but politically pathetic party harpers.org/archive/2025/0…
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Realizing for the hundredth time that this platform is intrinsically bad for politics and debate — and that was true even before it became the personal property of the worst guy in the world. Logging off for a while. Might return when I've got a book manuscript but not before
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Ben Burgis
Ben Burgis@BenBurgis·
Shawn Fain is obviously correct about both halves of this, and I have nothing but contempt for the libs who are mad at him for not overcorrecting all the way to free-trade absolutism.
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@cringe_handle Beyond that, the national "Democratic brand" (especially as embodied by the Harris campaign) is obviously associated with an entirely different set of economic, social, and cultural politics. Harris's defeat was not a defeat for "populism"
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@cringe_handle The policy was relatively small & scattered, never joined to anything like a strong populist politics (i.e. one that names a concrete enemy), and above all was deployed by an inert political husk
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The tariff debate has raised an army of straw men on the liberal left. Here are two points that, despite many efforts at caricature, nobody is really arguing about: Trump's tariff cartwheels are shambolic & destructive US manufacturing jobs will not return to "1955" levels
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Jerome Sneed Democrat
Jerome Sneed Democrat@avrilbradley23·
I'd add that while a favourite intra-leftist criticism is that some ocus too much on an idealized masculine blue collar working class over the actually existing heavily female service sector working class...its clear that both have swung heavily Republican.
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@EricLevitz I'm reasonably sure we live in the same world, Eric! My point was descriptive rather than polemical, and I think your replies only underline it. That said, I don't think the Teamsters, UAW, USW & others represent a trivial fragment of the 'blue collar working class'
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Eric Levitz
Eric Levitz@EricLevitz·
@karpmj I live in a world where 1) 90+% of workers consumer manufactured goods but do not produce them, 2) most blue-collar workers do not work in manufacturing, 3) some major blue-collar unions oppose tariffs (see dockworkers' stance from 2018)... ilaunion.org/ila-man-hours-…
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More Perfect Union
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS·
After rolling back many of his tariffs Trump had Charles Schwab and others in the Oval Office. He pointed out that his guests had made fortunes on the stock market just one hour after his announcement. “He made 2.5 billion today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.”
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Bob Hutton
Bob Hutton@HerecomesDrBob·
@karpmj @cringe_handle Of course to the latter, but to the former, do you think this's truer NOW than it was 50-70 years ago? LBJ got into trade skirmishes with WestGer to woo Reuther, and I remember WELL the across-the-board union attacks on NAFTA.
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@HerecomesDrBob @cringe_handle no, for sure. But UAW, Steelworkers, Teamsters, etc -- it's the blue collar unions who have been most supportive of the idea (if not the execution) of tariff protection. But outside key districts, they don't hold sway in the Dem coalition anymore
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@cringe_handle a lot of this public polling seems driven by a pretty thin sort of partisanship. Would be interesting to see union member surveys. Obviously lots of unions themselves, from UAW on down, have either hedged or embraced the tariff concept
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@jdcmedlock It’s also true that Danish McDonalds workers get those wages largely because of the labor regime established by Danish factory workers 100 years ago. Unions get the goods but we can also admit that some unions are more powerful than others!
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