This article points out the salience of some of my remarks regarding how the Republican Party came up, based on both race and economics.
Liberace, being the Whig that he is, is not going to make this elementary connection for his readers.
He would follow the Whig thread of Civil War history, traced by the likes of Sean Trainor in Time Magazine, claiming that Lincoln Republicans stamped out xenophobia, quoted in one of DK's post, and criticized by me here several times.
The Party turned whites from fear of white immigration to fear of negro slave nationalization, having both racist and economic implications of the most obvious and elementary kind. This proved decisive in Lincoln' victory, if not in his later performance as President.
His masterstroke was to recognize the desperation of the white working class over the deteriorating industrial economy and to encourage their tendency to racialize that desperation. Neither economics nor identity politics can be said to be the more important factor. Perhaps one without the other — economics in a setting where no one racialized it, or racial prejudice at a time of economic prosperity — would not have brought about the same result. Together, they were tinder for the bonfire that resulted. And Trump was the match. (Cherlin)
And Lincoln was the match.
His masterstroke was to recognize the desperation of the white working class over the deteriorating industrial economy and to encourage their tendency to racialize that desperation. Neither economics nor identity politics can be said to be the more important factor. Perhaps one without the other — economics in a setting where no one racialized it, or racial prejudice at a time of economic prosperity — would not have brought about the same result. Together, they were tinder for the bonfire that resulted. And Trump was the match. (Cherlin)
And Lincoln was the match.
Trump beat both drums together just as Lincoln had.
Racial resentment will, and should, be huge, and intertwined, in connection with economic resentment associated with globalization going forward.
They are intimately intertwined for every civilization but the West.
Maybe this, my explanation, is also one that Leonhardt will find more sensible too, now that he has stumbled on it, as he has found the sociological underpinnings of it now in voter statistical behavior here. But beware: There are lies, damn lies, and then statistics.
At the time of Lincoln, free trade was negro slave plantation free trade.
Protectionism was racist white Northern protectionism.
Racial resentment will, and should, be huge, and intertwined, in connection with economic resentment associated with globalization going forward.
They are intimately intertwined for every civilization but the West.
Maybe this, my explanation, is also one that Leonhardt will find more sensible too, now that he has stumbled on it, as he has found the sociological underpinnings of it now in voter statistical behavior here. But beware: There are lies, damn lies, and then statistics.
At the time of Lincoln, free trade was negro slave plantation free trade.
Protectionism was racist white Northern protectionism.
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