Politics / The Press Can’t Wait to Do 2016 All Over Again Months out from campaign season, the political media is already trotting out all the same old bullshit that got us into this mess. So instead we are witnessing the old refrains from 2016 dressed up as fresh reporting and analysis, as though the last seven years of American political history simply hadn’t happened. Joe Biden carried non-college-educated voters over Trump in the last election; Trump only ran up margins against Biden among factions within that demographic: white voters, and, significantly, those earning more than $100,000 a year. Brooks disregards all these inconvenient economic truths because they don’t fit his tidy fable of Trumpism as a fierce repudiation of the American meritocracy. It is, in other words, a model of discourse over reward and punishment in the American political economy that entails no actual politics.

Source: Daily Nation August 10, 2023 04:14 UTC