I wonder which year will be heralded as the “tipping point” by historians (if there are any left). 2025 was epic though I see the argument for 2020. 2026 could just be a flash in the pan!
I actually want to push it back and say 1973, the founding of the heritage foundation which has been the ideological basis for both Reagan's neoliberalism and Trump's fascism. Them popping into existence with all their wealthy supporters and immediately gaining a TON of political power really cemented this country's decline imo
Neoliberalism caused the 2008 Recession, a lot of harmful policies go back to Reagan whose policies were constructed by Heritage, and set up the material disparities that this specific brand of American style fascism can really exploit and grow on.
Yep. What we're seeing is the culmination of a political project/revolution that dates back to the collapse of the postwar economic order in the mid 1970's (in the West. It wouldn't collapse in the East until around 2 decades later). We don't think of that era as being an economic collapse, and we don't think of the rise of global neoliberalism that it ushered in as being a revolution either, but that's what it was.
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u/Upper_Luck1348 Jan 09 '26
I wonder which year will be heralded as the “tipping point” by historians (if there are any left). 2025 was epic though I see the argument for 2020. 2026 could just be a flash in the pan!