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Ben Rhodes on the election: Stop trying to save neoliberal democracy, it’s already dead.

This is probably the best postmortem I have read and aligns with my own observation, that the 2008 financial crisis marked the end of neoliberalism and the birth of late stage capitalism.

Ben Rhodes was Deputy National Security Advisor under Obama.

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by Anonymousreply 4November 8, 2024 11:32 PM

Yes, I agree with him too.

by Anonymousreply 1November 8, 2024 6:10 PM

[quote] The playbook for transforming a democracy into a soft autocracy was clear: Win power with a populist message against elites. Redraw parliamentary districts. Change voting laws. Harass civil society. Pack courts with judges willing to support power grabs. Enrich cronies through corruption. Buy up newspapers and television stations and turn them into right-wing propaganda. Use social media to energize supporters. Wrap it up in an Us versus Them message: Us, the “real” Russians or Hungarians or Americans, against a rotating cast of Them: the migrants, the Muslims, the liberals, the gays, George Soros and on and on.

Shit. That is exactly what is happening.

by Anonymousreply 2November 8, 2024 6:24 PM

Rhodes is just repeating what Richard Rorty predicted in Achieving Our Country in 1998.

by Anonymousreply 3November 8, 2024 11:24 PM

And Richard Rorty is repeating what I predicted in the 19th century.

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by Anonymousreply 4November 8, 2024 11:32 PM
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