14 October 2024

THE NEW STATESMAN: Profound Realignments

 


Beneath the Kamala Harris-Donald Trump horserace is a deeper battle for the future of America. 

Will either candidate decisively break with the neoliberal political economy of the past 40 years? 

For our weekend essay, Justin Vassallo traces this fault line back to the very dawn of American politics. NH

If the Democratic leadership as a whole is serious about solidifying a post-neoliberal order and owning the political era that follows, it is incumbent upon them to deal with the simultaneous over-complexity and fragmentary ambition Bidenism has displayed thus far. 

This is a fundamental matter of vision that goes beyond Biden’s poor salesmanship: above all, Bidenism itself lacks equilibrium between its major priorities, in replication of a political antagonism that has its roots in the ideological fault lines of the American Revolution.


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THE NEW STATESMAN: Profound Realignments

  Beneath the Kamala Harris-Donald Trump horserace is a deeper battle for the future of America.  Will either candidate decisively break wit...