Trump’s blue-collar appeal rested on four identifiable mechanisms, not mere economic convergence

Evidence

In fact he usually didn’t spend much time on those themes. […] [T]he heart of his message was something different, an ersatz economic populism, which has been noted far and wide, but also a strong, usually overlooked, anti-war message. Both spoke to legitimate working class concerns. […] Trump took the Bernie-style populism, emptied it of real class politics, reduced it to a jumble of affective associations, and used it to beat-up the smug liberals of the professional managerial class. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2039 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Trump’s core message was ersatz economic populism and anti-war rhetoric — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2039

Broader Connections

• Trump’s core message was ersatz economic populism and anti-war rhetoric #complicates (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2039