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In reply to the discussion: How the European Union Turned Into a Neoliberal Nightmare [View all]LWolf
(46,179 posts)Trump's popularity doesn't include minorities or women.
Anger at the establishment from the right is certainly going to include xenophobia and bigotry of all kinds.
Anger at the neoliberal establishment from the left is about neoliberal economic policies that harm the 99% to benefit the 1%. I hope you're not okay with that.
When there is, here in the U.S. and other places around the globe, a growing anger at establishment governments, including neoliberal governments, change in some form is coming. Those that cling to the establishment, who try to equate the left and right as equal "extremes" are leaving the door open for the rise of fascism, rather than helping to organize that anger, energy, and determination to change into something more evolved and better for the people or the planet.
"There's very little difference between the extremes of the left and the right" sounds very much like the claim that there is little difference between the Republican and Democratic Party, which is regularly attacked here. Yet, clinging to neoliberalism as the mythical "center" actually supports that claim, rather than refuting it.