We have some interesting discussion on the rise of a new left in American politics, a development which presumably has become more pronounced with the ascension of Trump to the iron throne. As Andrew Sullivan used to say, the money quote:
But the millennial left is not a return to the New Left of the 1960s — the student radicals, hippies and Yippies who raised hell in their efforts to end the Vietnam War and change American culture to make it less racist and sexist and more authentic. Rather it invokes the ideas of the Old Left of the 1930s — the militant labor unions, socialists and even communists who, in the context of the worst economic depression in American history, sought a genuine alternative to capitalism. ... In this view, the role of Clinton Democrats is to administer the decline of the New Deal, not fight for its expansion through different means.
We might get a test of their mettle as the crisis over Trump's legitimacy to rule heats up toward the boiling point, which could be real soon. We will see if they can do a better job at bringing out 'people power' than such leftist organizations as the Occupy movement.
[Andrew Hartman at The Washington Post]
But the millennial left is not a return to the New Left of the 1960s — the student radicals, hippies and Yippies who raised hell in their efforts to end the Vietnam War and change American culture to make it less racist and sexist and more authentic. Rather it invokes the ideas of the Old Left of the 1930s — the militant labor unions, socialists and even communists who, in the context of the worst economic depression in American history, sought a genuine alternative to capitalism. ... In this view, the role of Clinton Democrats is to administer the decline of the New Deal, not fight for its expansion through different means.
We might get a test of their mettle as the crisis over Trump's legitimacy to rule heats up toward the boiling point, which could be real soon. We will see if they can do a better job at bringing out 'people power' than such leftist organizations as the Occupy movement.
[Andrew Hartman at The Washington Post]