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Anglofuturism Episode 069 with @danny__kruger explores Reform UK’s plan for government.
We discussed how the party plan to deal with Britain’s changing demographics, lacklustre economy, and absence of national ambition in the face of unprecedented threats and opportunities.View quoted post on X
has anyone written a compelling analysis and explanation for why abundance liberalism failed as a movement? i have my takes but they are all superficial i thinkView quoted post on X
Crazy there's an entire continent which every government in the world has agreed must stay uninhabited. It's like something from a YA dystopia novel.View quoted post on X
Anglofuturism Episode 068 asks @edwest if Britain is real, whether to fear being murdered by the Spice Girls, and the relative decadence of sex parties and ennui. Watch below.View quoted post on X
The results are disastrous. Trump is hemmed in at home, and while he will retain greater scope for action abroad, his ability to keep waging the Iran war will depend upon congressional Democrats’ power of the purse. The deeper tragedy is the collapse of the remarkable coalition he put together that, by 2024, encompassed the multiracial working class, including half of Hispanic men and a fifth of African-American men. The Iran war, as I warned in September, was driving a re-realignment favouring Democrats.
But the outcome is worse still for the hawks themselves, especially those who had come to treat American and Israeli interests as one and the same, and to take the aspirations and tone of Israel’s hard Right as an unimpeachable guide for US policy. It had gone too far. At one point last year, US State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce described the United States as “the greatest country on Earth” before pausing to correct herself: “…next to Israel.” (Cleanliness, recall, is next to godliness, not the other way around.)
Where will they go now? The Middle East hawks still enjoy tremendous institutional power. But their worldview can no longer be considered to be in the American mainstream. Republican elected officials no less than Democratic ones can read polls, and foreign policy must enjoy some degree of domestic buy-in. Even before the GOP’s Iran-war rout, the polling was clear: Israel — at least, in its current, maximalist iteration — is massively unpopular among Democrats, Independents, and younger Republicans.
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