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The Left's Response to the Trucker Protest
The Trucker protest is a crude expression of a class interest that the left is sort of saying... Or many on the left is saying like, there's something wrong with this. We need to delegitimize and dismiss this protest because we feel that there's a... Material... Potential material conflict with these protesters. So yeah, I think it's a coherent expression of a material demand. And so if there is an anti-political element, it comes through the failures and insufficiencies of existing kind of representative institutions. But maybe the political conflict in this case is about material interests. Yeah. David. The book was mainly written before, you know, before the pandemic, even