Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis: In the FT, Gideon Rachman argues: "The old left-right divide of the 20th century has given way to a new cleavage between liberal internationalists and populist nationalists." Le Pen, Trump and liberal panic www.ft.com/content/d3f2...

In the FT, Gideon Rachman argues: "The old left-right divide of the 20th century has given way to a new cleavage between liberal internationalists and populist nationalists." Le Pen, Trump and liberal panic www.ft.com/content/d3f2...

Le Pen, Trump and liberal panicwww.ft.com Liberals are in for a long struggle as nationalist populism surges in the US and Europe

Meanwhile, in Die Zeit, Thomas Piketty contends that the middle is kaput (or kaputt, if you prefer the German original) and the only way out--at least in Europe--is to pit farther left against far right as the center of each is rich internationalists everybody else resents. Die Mitte ist kaputt

Thomas Piketty: Die Mitte ist kaputtwww.zeit.de Wir brauchen zwingend ein klares Rechts und Links, sagt der Ökonom Thomas Piketty. Nur echte Widersprüche könnten die Demokratien vor einem Rechtsruck bewahren. Pardon?

I continued this thread in a post about the only political taxonomy that matters in America: race. medium.com/whither-news...

As Complicated as Black and Whitemedium.com Unless Democrats face the centrality of race, all will be lost

Reminder that I always crosspost from Medium to my (free) blog: buzzmachine.com/2024/07/04/a...

As complicated as Black and whitebuzzmachine.com Here are two attempts to redraw the binary political taxonomies of today: In the FT, Gideon Rachman argues that after the “liberal false dawn” of Obama,...

so, die Welt zerfällt, die Mitte hält nicht mehr?

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