I think @lioneltrolling.bsky.social has something somewhere on this idea, that MAGA is all about economic spoils only for select elites and maintaining hierarchy that way. Or via @chrislhayes.bsky.social, the goal is not the 1950s but the 1890s. I think the Trump toy debate illustrates this nicely: - ThreadSky

gregsargent.bsky.social • 27 days ago

I think @lioneltrolling.bsky.social has something somewhere on this idea, that MAGA is all about economic spoils only for select elites and maintaining hierarchy that way. Or via @chrislhayes.bsky.social, the goal is not the 1950s but the 1890s. I think the Trump toy debate illustrates this nicely:

Reposted from Greg Sargent

Trumpism is actually not about restoring good manufacturing jobs. Bringing mass scale toy manufacturing to the US (brutal factory jobs) while gutting unions/regulations (also core ideological commitments of Trumpism) is a recipe for drudgery and subjugation.

newrepublic.com/article/1949...

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marcosantana.bsky.social•27 days ago

Trump fundamentally doesn’t understand the 21st Century. And Peter Thiel and his billionaire tech bro cronies want to build a new Roman Empire with them in charge. What could go wrong? lol @allinwithchris.bsky.social

blue4peace.bsky.social•27 days ago

The Felon’s campaign promises of job wealth & prosperity for MAGA voters appears to be as fake as the “gold” painted on the walls of the Oval Office! Bright & shiny at first glance but upon closer inspection not worth the cost of the paint!

yinzboy.bsky.social•27 days ago

Meanwhile, many of the actual good jobs are handed out to H-1B indentured servants that tech companies can control and pay lower than market wages. The USA has been cranking out highly qualified tech workers for decades now, but the tech oligarchs push the lie that Americans are too stupid for them.

yinzboy.bsky.social•27 days ago

They tech industry has had massive layoffs in the last few years yet they continue to demand H-1B workers. The oligarchs greed knows no bounds.

yinzboy.bsky.social•27 days ago

Unfortunately, Krugman runs cover for them.

anita72.bsky.social•27 days ago

bonenberger.bsky.social•27 days ago

People need to understand that women's right to vote, the Civil Rights Act, even the 14th amendment — these things are all up for grabs, not as ends unto themselves, but as means to an end (the rebirth of a de jure aristocracy)

fnordpig.bsky.social•27 days ago

mitchellmebane.bsky.social•27 days ago

I think many of them are actually pining for the 1850s.

deehellcat.bsky.social•27 days ago

This has been my thought too. Got to get legalized slavery back.

pre3chorded.bsky.social•27 days ago

Dipshit Trump voters in Michigan aren't smart or disciplined enough for jobs more complex than combing doll hair. It's sad, but we either give them welfare or hard labor.

christinekooi.bsky.social•27 days ago

I don't think there was ever any doubt that the Trumpist movement was all about benefitting elites and reinforcing hierarchies.

tammelas.bsky.social•27 days ago

You know that and I know that, there are a lot of people out there who think a Happy Days future could be ours if only we let him do his thing 🤦🏻‍♀️

ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social•27 days ago

It is quite literally a Maoist attempt to RETVRN American to the bucolic days of a manufacturing economy.

jackjonesoak.bsky.social•27 days ago

Just now figuring this out?

leon-rozenblit.bsky.social•27 days ago

Yes, this is important, if unpleasant to consider. I've found that on r/askconservatives, the economic justifications often convey a longing for a world with desperate people available cheaply for unpleasant work and who know their place.

leon-rozenblit.bsky.social•27 days ago

And I say this as someone who doesn't normally resonate with oppressor-oppressed frameworks -- as a political refugee from the former Soviet Union, they provoke the opposite of nostalgia for me.

sionxxii.bsky.social•27 days ago

I had HBO in the 70's.

I saw it all coming.

"Never before in history have masses forgone all comfort, so that the spirit of genius might thrive and seek the golden key to a new time of plenty in the fertile field of minority privilege."

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