The 2020 Elections in the United States: A Socialist View from Afar
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Editors’ note: We are posting two articles on the 2020 U.S. presidential election from the forthcoming Winter 2021 issue of New Politics
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While votes were being counted after the November 2020 U.S. elections, despots from around the world in Iran, Russia, China, Venezuela, and Brazil crowed over the delay in announcing results.
there because there s a constituency that feels that way. it s not just the people that use anchor babies. all of this is channelling a feeling about invasion, besiegement, impurity. a future that looks nothing like the past. that is a deep feeling of many people in the republican base, and i think sometimes for really nefarious reasons. global capitalism, et cetera. those are real feelings. it s not just the words of there. those words are attached to sentiment in the republican base. i think that, when i think about republicans, i think of the changing demographics within, for example, the chamber of commerce, with the local business communities that are starting to reflect and be more open about talking about immigration in a way that is more humane and that actually helps both sides. i get the business part of it, but i think there has to be more humility. i think that some of the chambers at the local level are doing a better job, and they