I wrote a little bit about the lie that authoritarians care about "antitrust reform" and "reining in corporate power"; a pre-election head fake propped up by terrible journalists and useful idiots like Matt Stoller:
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his big theory is that the shift in white working class partisan alignment and voting patterns is not explained by the civil rights movement, the VRA, the construction of the suburbs, etc, but rather monopolists infiltrating the dems in the late 70s and the spread of wal-marts in the 80s
Being a China hawk (at least on trade issues) is the only rational position. I've covered corporate fraud for decades and it's one of their biggest exports to the US.
I remember seeing a lot of people saying dumb shit like "hey, maybe Trump will keep Lina Khan around because he wants to rein in big tech too!"
And I just didn't see anything in her body of work that indicated her dream role was to be an attack dog extracting money and fealty from corporations.
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But that's kind of like trying to develop an intimate relationship with a running chainsaw.
Also I'm 100% convinced Matt likes the racism and sexism.
He usually keeps it out of his newsletter so it tends to surprise some people.
In his big Atlantic piece, he centers how New Dems in the 90s “engaged in a coup” to oust Wright Patman. A racist segregationist.
Look how casually he brings it up & then strolls right past this
And I just didn't see anything in her body of work that indicated her dream role was to be an attack dog extracting money and fealty from corporations.
The right wing is full of propaganda on this front, and the "post-left" nitwits like Stoller often help them sell it.