December 2018
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Dissent
Class, race, and culture all have to be part of any overall explanation of the rightward turn-not only for the United States but also for center-left parties in Western Europe. There has to be a left response on all these fronts. It may make sense politically to focus on domestic issues-the economy, stupid!-but that leaves leftists with nothing coherent to say about American jingoism abroad. Furthermore, there has to be a politics that combines inclusion, the fight for equal citizenship within the current system, with redistribution, a fundmental restructuring of the current system.