My sister worked in Ecuador for many years at a fancy private school teaching the children of the elite English literature. Many of the kids came to school accompanied by armed guards. She recently told me she's really getting 'Latin America vibes' here at home.
Do you have the impression that people other than Trump and his set are behaving in a third world way? I'm sure you've seen the stuff on Twitter claiming that Mamdani and El Sayed etc are adherents to "Third Worldism" or "Islamo-Leftism". Those claims seem so facially stupid and bad faith to me that I haven't bothered to look into them, but are you suggesting you think there's something there?
(Also, did you ever write up the claim you made on a podcast with Max Read (if I remember correctly) about Trumpism being akin to anti-colonial movements? I thought you did but now can't find it. Seems connected to this third worldism stuff.)
Oh, sorry, it wasn't clear to me that it was ironic! The state of left wing politics seems so...degraded to me in a way that I have trouble understanding (certainly I understand it less than I feel I understand the right), so I wondered if maybe you were suggesting that this would, Noah Smith's idiocy notwithstanding, be a helpful frame to apply there too.
Trump's Art of the Deal, or how to run a huge economy like a two-bit mobster.
Trump 2: Art of the Bust-Out
My sister worked in Ecuador for many years at a fancy private school teaching the children of the elite English literature. Many of the kids came to school accompanied by armed guards. She recently told me she's really getting 'Latin America vibes' here at home.
Do you have the impression that people other than Trump and his set are behaving in a third world way? I'm sure you've seen the stuff on Twitter claiming that Mamdani and El Sayed etc are adherents to "Third Worldism" or "Islamo-Leftism". Those claims seem so facially stupid and bad faith to me that I haven't bothered to look into them, but are you suggesting you think there's something there?
(Also, did you ever write up the claim you made on a podcast with Max Read (if I remember correctly) about Trumpism being akin to anti-colonial movements? I thought you did but now can't find it. Seems connected to this third worldism stuff.)
How am I suggesting that? Isn’t it clear that I’m ironically playing off that ?
Oh, sorry, it wasn't clear to me that it was ironic! The state of left wing politics seems so...degraded to me in a way that I have trouble understanding (certainly I understand it less than I feel I understand the right), so I wondered if maybe you were suggesting that this would, Noah Smith's idiocy notwithstanding, be a helpful frame to apply there too.