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Whatever happens, I’m not optimistic for the future. The Democrats have shown that they have no interest in even tossing out the tiniest of crumbs to progressives. The fact that Harris and the DNC as a whole is more concerned with what freaks like Dick Cheney and Bill Kristol than progressives indicates that the Democrats are going to be moving further and further right. Since Republicans are also becoming more right-wing, don’t be surprised if Trump himself becomes rehabilitated like Cheney in twenty years, when we are told we must accept him into the party to save “our democracy” from the threat of presidential candidate Richard Spencer (I don’t think Trump will still be around in twenty years, but maybe his brain will be floating in a jar that can be wheeled in stage or something).

Similarly, it’s only a matter of time before Marine Le Pen gets into power in France and Alice Weidel in Germany, because the mainstream parties have nothing to offer, other than not being them. Macron screwed over the left-wing who had begrudgingly made a temporary alliance with him to defeat Le Pen by instead forming a right-wing government. I don’t see the left (such as it is) doing that again, knowing that Macron isn’t acting in good faith. If a right-wing government is inevitable, you might as well go for the real thing in the form of Le Pen.

In Germany, the destruction of Nord Stream II and the severing of relations with Russia have led to a deterioration in material and economic conditions that may well be permanent. The AfD are the only party talking about this, while the so-called traffic light coalition remains obsequious to the US. I don’t know how much room a hypothetical AfD led coalition would have to actually defy the US, but the possibility that they might is part of their appeal.

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