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We just elected a guy who’s fine with the planet melting down, kids getting shot in school, insurance companies going back to denying coverage for preexisting conditions, and wants to weaponize the federal government in a way dictators do. What happened? Democrats thought the 2024 election would be all about Donald Trump’s embrace of fascism and the future of our democracy. And abortion .

Pretty much all of us thought that. As did most of the news media and pundits. But now that the exit polls and research is largely in, we’re finding, instead, that the election was all about who’d be best able to “blow up the system.



” By “the system,” voters didn’t mean democracy (although we may get the end of that); they meant the neoliberal system that Ronald Reagan introduced to replace FDR’s New Deal policies in 1981 and was subsequently embraced by Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama. In other words, they said, “We want the jobs like we had before Reagan’s neoliberalism, when one person could support a household.” If that word intimidates or confuses you (as it does most Americans), here it is broken down: Neoliberalism (as I lay out in The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America ) combines free trade, low taxes, and an end to the power of unions.

Neoliberals typically also embrace open borders, as in the world’s most complete neoliberal experiment that’s called the European Union (which is also in trouble now). The result of Reagan’s ve.

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