Why Is the Radical Right Still Winning?

[zcomm.org]

(Elsewhere in the world, the right has certainly mobilized resentment against neoliberal globalization.)

Yea, I'm not buying this narrative. Even here as NAFTA was made a big deal by Trump, his latest changes by most accounts had little changing effects. And some are saying it may end up being worse in the long run. The tariff deal is going to end up being a permanent manufactured means of an inflation hike. Both of these still benefiting only the corporations and worlds most wealthy. The only real resentment is coming from the people that are going to lose in both cases.

(Politically, the new right-wing populists are taking advantage of a widespread disgust for political elites. This disgust has been focused in particular on the corruption scandals that have engulfed so many countries. Because they’re focused on corruption, voters are willing to embrace candidates who are also members of the political elite and personally corrupt to boot — as long as these firebrands promise to “drain the swamp.&rdquo

I'm not even going to attempt to be nice about this. Pure total ignorance. We are talking about a clan that doesn't give a rats ass about you. Using you! And will take you out right along with the rest of us when they are done using you.

(The left is compromised on all three grounds. It remains committed to multiculturalism. Once in office, it has often proven just as corrupt (or, at least, status-quo-oriented) as any other political bloc. And left parties have pushed forward economic globalization as vigorously as the right, if not more so — the Democrats under Clinton, Labor under Blair, the French Socialists under Mitterand, former Communist parties in Eastern Europe, and so on. No surprise, then, that None of the Above has become so popular.)

ding ding ding! There's that 1-2 punch again! The left setting you up with the jab, the right comes in and knocks you out.