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Dump Term 2 Part 4: Twilight of the Derps

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What we are describing is not an excess of cultural liberalism. We’re describing a party that spent 30 years presiding over the destruction of our economic lives and filled the void with culture war positioning because it had nothing real to offer. The frustration was never that Democrats cared about gay marriage. It’s that gay marriage was all they had the courage for. FDR could afford to be plenty progressive on social questions because he was also electrifying your farm and hiring your neighbor. When the structural ambition disappeared, all that was left was the culture.


As a white working-class man from Appalachia, I know what drove me away from the Democratic Party, and it was not wokeness. It was watching a party that claimed to represent working people become indistinguishable, on the things that actually mattered to my region, from the Republicans they were supposed to be fighting. The uniparty of war and free markets and neoliberal consensus that shipped our jobs, let our towns rot, looked the other way while the Sacklers poisoned our communities, and then showed up every four years to tell us the market would eventually sort things out.
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