Sublime

The oldest conflict in American politics is the one between individualism and centralism. Reagan changed the terms by inverting them: the descendants of Jefferson’s yeoman farmers, with their desire for independence, became sturdy car-company executives and investment bankers yearning to breathe free of big government. The heirs of Hamilton’s arist

And what follows will, as with Roosevelt and Reagan, maintain the core principles of America while radically changing how we experience it.

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The changes of the early seventies marked a long-term Democratic shift in power from the white working class to the college-educated and minorities. It took several decades, but the two parties just about traded places. By the turn of the millennium, the Democrats were becoming the home of affluent professionals, while the Republicans were starting

1. The Era of Capital Dominance (1980s Onward): • Political Changes: Bessent notes that the shift favoring capital began around 1980, coinciding with the election of leaders like Margaret Thatcher in the UK and Ronald Reagan in the US. These leaders implemented policies that favored deregulation, privatization, and a free-market economy.

Europe is now broadly to the right of the US Establishment on ethno-cultural issues, whereas it was to the left of the US in 1988.

Political struggle in this era must involve other groups.

America has come to embody the most extreme expression of progressive linearism.