[NYer]

We are heading for a politics in which the divisions are no longer just left and right, at least not in the sense we’ve used those terms for the past few decades. The shift is splitting all current movements into nationalist and internationalist wings – or perhaps populist and establishment, middle class and upper class, or urban and provincial.

FYI ping!

[TigerClaws]

Complacent?

They are very ACTIVE.

Actively encouraging open borders, one world LGBT government while (oddly) allowing in Muslims to murder westerners.

[Bryanw92]

This guy hit the nail on the head. Excellent explanation of our predicament.

[Little Ray]

“Believing that a country’s foreign policy should primarily benefit that country’s citizens is now akin to revealing some perverted fetish.”

The US State Department is probably the USA’s most persistent enemy...

[Starboard]

Its not a complacent elite. Its an arrogant and degenerate elite.

[be-baw]

Good article. Thanks for posting it.

[Pelham]

“How did this mushy consensus come about? That’s a difficult question. One thing’s for certain: The political elite misread the fall of communism. They thought, as the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama did, that history had ended, and that at the climax of this great Hegelian unfolding was a Western liberal democracy that would never die.

“This bred arrogant complacency – the belief that you could sit back, relax and think only about small matters like tax rates. Why worry about immigration? After all, history was over. We had won. The little people would soon see how glorious the future would be.

“Meanwhile, globalisation had already begun to destroy many traditional communities, jobs and ways of life. And when these forgotten men and women looked to their leaders for help, they found only laughter and scorn. After 25 years of that, what did they expect?”

...and now they are on the receiving end of revolution.

[Biggirl]

Mr. Trump uses these words instead: “Make America Great Again” or MAGA.

[Biggirl]

What we are seeing is the start of nationalism.

[GOPJ]

Meanwhile, globalisation had already begun to destroy many traditional communities, jobs and ways of life. And when these forgotten men and women looked to their leaders for help, they found only laughter and scorn.

This has NOT been a pretty political season...