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The State of the American Right (w/ Daniel Denvir)

Know Your Enemy

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What Is the Main Thime of the Economic Nationalist Tea Party?

White working and middle classes had only adopted libertarianism reactively when they saw the welfare state as supporting undeserving others. But that once they glimpsed the possibility of exercising that power themselves, that they would want to wield a powerful state to their own benefit. So is that why it happened, right when it did, that this economic nationalism o sorts supplanted the neo liberal libertarianism on the right? I'm not sure because, you know, one of the interesting things is that where i grew up in central pennsylvania, like, the anti nafta sentiment was one of the only consistent things i heard from my father,. You can see where i'm going with this.

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