Does anyone find it curious when right-wing Americans use the language of the radical left?
I am interested this because it just doesn't happen in the UK. Our own Conservatives are exactly that. They tend to be (self-interested) middle-class people who prioritise stability, low taxes and privatised utilities. Maybe it was once like this is the US but now the anti-establishment tendencies of many US Conservatives has seen them use some arguments that I have only ever heard on the radical left.
Obviously US Conservatives have long hated on the 'Liberal Elite' and been against 'Big Government' but recently it seems like something more.
Many Trump supporters are against TTIP, corporate lobbying, the NSA and free-market economics generally. This is big departure for the American Right which normally pins its anti-establishment credentials on the culture war or hatred of the state. I can tell why The National Review are not amused. Sections of the US right have what could be called a socialist class analysis. They hate the establishment and corporate America.
Now they have different conclusions than I would draw. They support Donald Trump and they also have strong anti-immigrant sentiments, many see Islam as pending threat to the USA and they have views on law and order that I would never support. I also think that Donald Trump will very much not represent their economic interests in any way. BUT I do find this curious and I do wonder where this will go.
Obviously US Conservatives have long hated on the 'Liberal Elite' and been against 'Big Government' but recently it seems like something more.
Many Trump supporters are against TTIP, corporate lobbying, the NSA and free-market economics generally. This is big departure for the American Right which normally pins its anti-establishment credentials on the culture war or hatred of the state. I can tell why The National Review are not amused. Sections of the US right have what could be called a socialist class analysis. They hate the establishment and corporate America.
Now they have different conclusions than I would draw. They support Donald Trump and they also have strong anti-immigrant sentiments, many see Islam as pending threat to the USA and they have views on law and order that I would never support. I also think that Donald Trump will very much not represent their economic interests in any way. BUT I do find this curious and I do wonder where this will go.
41-45, M
