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Bizarre and unreflective essay from a person who used to be subtle and nuanced. Hammering in the cliche one final time, Christopher Caldwell says Trump 'spoke to a downwardly mobile, mostly white working class that had been forgotten by the elites.' https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trump-was-inept-but-his-instincts-werent-wrong-x7sp2lr6d
um...no. Biden voters were poorer, overall, than Trump voters. Also many Trump voters were middle and upper class (look at who came to the Capitol). Also, Trump's policies were all 100% geared to help Trump and his cronies, not the white working class or anyone else.
also, this sentence is incredible: 'Incomes rose modestly for the lowest-paid workers, although this may have been due to minimum-wage laws passed in several states.' Who passed the minimum wage laws? It wasn't Republicans.
Now Trump is finally gone, it might actually be possible to do some things that will help the working class, like better health care, which he blocked, or acceleration of the covid vaccine, or real covid relief. Though of course Republicans in Congress will work against it.
Even the rise of leftish censoriousness, which I don't like either, has been worsened by Trump. Of course the presence of a sinister buffoon in the White House, who winks at racists and white supremacists, has inflamed the far-left. Why would it not?
I wrote about this before the election, here: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/left-and-right-are-radicalizing-each-other/616914/
And no - the main problem with Trump is not that he was incompetent. The problem was that he was malevolent. He sought to do harm and damage. He and his team are still trying to wreck things with only 3 days left to go.
