Obama shunned a New Deal, and now a reactionary is riding into office promising the Herrenvolk version.

liberalism and the Democratic Party in no way represents the left-wing obverse of conservatism and the GOP. And liberals, deep down in their hearts, understand this. They have no true ideological counterpoint--no real program and certainly no vision for changing society for the better.

liberalism's most popular quasi-social-democratic achievements--Social Security, Medicare, the Wagner Act

he's seamlessly assembled a coterie of corporate bosses into his transition team

the United States might have seemed to many a conservative country, making the founding of the magazine an act of “supererogation,” as the Catholic reactionary put it, in fact it was anything but: it was a bold counterstroke against liberal hegemony.

Continuing the provincial petit bourgeois theme, Goldwater was the grandson of the founder of a five-outlet department store chain

Historically, many on the Left have treated working-class support for the Right as a form of false consciousness. Capital’s control of the means of ideological production (the media) allow them to distort workers’ thinking.

Now that neoliberalism has conquered its old enemies and won its world wars, its adherents have transformed from radical pioneers into conservative defenders of the status quo. “There is no alternative” sounds less like the battle cry of uncompromising reformers and more like the plea of an embattled caste.

as Barber says, Trump gives "succor to the demagogues-in-waiting" like Le Pen.