11-21-2016, 02:28 PM
(Hi - former T4T forum user, occasional poster under handles similar to this one), no one of any consequence though - going back to 2003 or so. Glad someone set this up!)
Thought regarding the 2016 election:
One could think of the New Deal as a deal in part with southern whites. That is, the tacit price of new deal legislation was arguably no movement or little movement on civil rights and the perpetuation of Jim Crow etc into the 60's. Until LBJ, many new deal type democrats were in fact white southerners.
Go back to the 4T of the founders. A key compromise in the federalist system was the issue of slaves.
I understand that Trump is equally likely to be a robber baron in power as he is to be what he campaigned on. But, if for example he starts pushing through trillion dollar infrastructure bills, and essentially courts the white working class voters on both the left and the right (who may overlap on key issues. Trump met with Bernie Sanders supporter Gabby Giffords today, in fact), could Trump be a product of this type of tacit political compromise?
In a 4T, in other words, is our political system set up in such a way that we can only make these big conceptual changes for the white majority, waiting for a young prophet generation in a 2T to open up opportunities for excluded groups?
I have strong opinions on this but wanted to ask the question rather than answer it myself.
Thought regarding the 2016 election:
One could think of the New Deal as a deal in part with southern whites. That is, the tacit price of new deal legislation was arguably no movement or little movement on civil rights and the perpetuation of Jim Crow etc into the 60's. Until LBJ, many new deal type democrats were in fact white southerners.
Go back to the 4T of the founders. A key compromise in the federalist system was the issue of slaves.
I understand that Trump is equally likely to be a robber baron in power as he is to be what he campaigned on. But, if for example he starts pushing through trillion dollar infrastructure bills, and essentially courts the white working class voters on both the left and the right (who may overlap on key issues. Trump met with Bernie Sanders supporter Gabby Giffords today, in fact), could Trump be a product of this type of tacit political compromise?
In a 4T, in other words, is our political system set up in such a way that we can only make these big conceptual changes for the white majority, waiting for a young prophet generation in a 2T to open up opportunities for excluded groups?
I have strong opinions on this but wanted to ask the question rather than answer it myself.