Ever wonder what Sean Hannity is blathering about when he talks about “uncovering the Deep State”? This book gives an answer, I think. Not really a “book,” but a reprint of an article Nancy Fraser contributed to the journal American Affairs. The insight is short and sweet and better than soldiering through an entire book. Analyzing in terminology originating from the Marxist theorist, Antonio Gramsci, Fraser traces the political development of neoliberalism from the last twenty-five years to the present. She analyzes what she calls “progressive neoliberalsim” — essentially neoliberal policy in progressive window-dressing, neoliberalism with a happy face — the political consequences of which brought us the current occupant of the White House. His brand of neoliberalism is more virulent than the former. He has gone back to all the promises made during the 2016 campaign, made matters worse for his political base, but they don’t care. He has tapped into their extreme disaffection in the electorate caused by progressive neoliberalism and made that disaffection worse, by causing as one observer commented, opening up a deep wound and continually prodding it with a hot poker. It is neoliberalism with an angry, blood-thirsty face.
In her view the current political landscape is a conflict between two warring neoliberal classes. However, she does not leave us hanging, like many other similar books. She posits the emergence of a true populist progressive movement to resolve the contradiction of these two warring tribes; otherwise the situation will get worse, if that is possible. Time will tell how things will play out on that.
There is also a conversation between Fraser and Bakshar Sunkara editor of Jacobin Magazine, repeating and elaborating on this new populist progressive movement.
So the next time you see Hannity’s smug face talk about the evils of the “Deep State,” what he is really saying is a paid advertisement for Trump’s brand of neoliberalism. But the new cannot be born from the dying. Fraser is optimistic in saying that neoliberalism is a spent concept, eaten alive by Trump’s angrier type of neoliberalism, and from the ashes this truly populist progressive movement will emerge.
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alona rodeh
very short (expensive for what it is)
Reviewed in Germany on June 6, 2020