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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The capture of the working class by the nativist right has realigned politics. And not just in Italy. There’s a political constituency in many Western countries today coalescing around anti-capitalism, anti-immigration, and social conservatism. These people don’t want to dismantle the welfare state, they want to put up a wall around it to protect the native-born from the threats (in their eyes) of immigration, liberalization, and globalization.
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This is apt. I think the further problem we are seeing in politics is that this new group is opposed to social liberals and to straight capitalists, and take advantage of the fact that those two groups have trouble finding any common ground. The only thing both of these groups agree on is the troglodyte nature of the newer coalition.