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The same 2016 tropes around “it’s not race, but class” are being recycled in 2020 election analyses. At best they evince a poor grasp of what race or class are. At worst they repackage as “analysis” right wing populist propaganda. https://twitter.com/uhmanduhdawn/status/1335936111798054920
“Class” becomes a rubric to discuss a series of cultural grievances, that are tangentially related to economics, but not the same as them. https://twitter.com/shanice_om/status/1335931855082819585
this enables elites and petty bourgeois to claim the language of class struggle and turn it into a kind of workerist and producerist (job creators and hardworking everymen) ethnonationalist coalition https://twitter.com/lromeranth/status/1335959319507034112?s=20
The end game of this analysis of class—that reduces it to cultural grievances—is inevitably to adopt the politics of the Bannonite right.
@aurelmondon and @aaronzwinter don't know if you have seen this in the NYT today
