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Donald Trump is part of a much bigger phenomenon, explains Professor Steve Davies. SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/2dUx6wg LEARN MORE: Income Inequality and the Effects of Globalization (video): Tyler Cowen explains that though there is greater income inequality in the US, globalization has been reducing poverty worldwide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja15pIDBEHc How White Privilege Could Explain Everything About Donald Trump’s Success (blog post): Michael Munger explains how the rhetoric of white privilege has vilified the poor white working class http://www.learnliberty.org/blog/success-white-privilege-and-donald-trump/ Immigration's Impact On Economies & Culture In 2 min (video): Steve Davies explains the economic benefits of immigration and why he’s not concerned about the cultural effects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMieCIMO9rk TRANSCRIPT: Dave Rubin: What is happening globally that this isn't just a ... I mean, I think everyone in America thinks everything's about us all the time and this is just our phenomenon and has nothing to do with anything else. Steve Davies: Well, absolutely. There's something really strange going on here in the United States, I think it's fair to say. Although, maybe not that strange, because I actually think that what's happening with Donald Trump is possibly a more widespread phenomenon in most western democracies, which is the rise of a kind of politics that's commonly described, I think, misleadingly, as right-wing populism. What it actually is is a politics that combines left-of-century economics, strong support for the welfare state, with an extremely unpleasant kind of nativism, anti-globalization, nationalism, and that's pretty much where Donald Trump is coming from. It's straight forward [Hamiltonian 00:00:51] economic nationalism combined with a very unpleasant kind of identity politics, I would say. Dave Rubin: Yeah. Steve Davies: He's not alone. He's part of a much bigger phenomenon. Dave Rubin: Okay, so let's unpack a couple of those phrases then. You'd say this isn't a right-winged phenomenon because his politics are kind of lame, right? He is using nationalism, so that is more of the right side. Steve Davies: Yeah. Dave Rubin: What were the other parts that were ... Steve Davies: Well, there's also support from welfare state, but on a strictly national basis. I mean, the correct name for this kind of politics, I think, is nationalist collectivism. You could call it national socialism, but that's kind of been claimed already. Dave Rubin: That might be a little too scary. Steve Davies: Be too scary, yeah. It's nationalist collectivism, basically. It's on the rise across most western democracies. A few exceptions like Spain, Portugal, Ireland, but otherwise, this is the kind of politics we see on the rise everywhere, I'm afraid. Marine Le Pen in France, Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Donald Trump here. Pretty much everywhere. Canada is another exception. Dave Rubin: What is happening globally that is caused that this isn't just a phenomenon? I mean, I think everyone in America thinks everything's about us all the time and this is just our phenomenon and it's nothing to do with anything else, but what's happening globally? Steve Davies: Well, there are two things, I think. One of them is that a lot of the support for this kind of politics comes from older, working-class voters in what you would call the Rust Belt, decayed, ex-industrial areas where life has not been good for quite a long time, and these people feel that they're ignored by the political establishment, that the system is not working in their interests, and they're kicking back. Dave Rubin: Yeah. Steve Davies: That's one reason. Dave Rubin: Some of that, you would argue, is legit, right? Steve Davies: Yes, certainly. Yeah, indeed. They're quite right, life has been pretty hard for them for quite a long time. Dave Rubin: Yeah. Steve Davies: The other thing, though, which I actually think is more important is to do with the politics of identity. It's to do with a feeling that a certain kind of identity is under threat from the process of globalization, cosmopolitanism, maybe political correctness, a whole bunch of stuff like that. There's a very powerful cultural reaction, a reassertion of a certain kind of identity, and I think that is what is really potent and really driving this kind of politics. (See the full transcript here: http://www.learnliberty.org/videos/making-sense-of-trumpism/ )
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It is not a reaction. It is the future. We are tired of having our individual right to self-determination taken away by government policies and the social cult of the left. It is not about "white men." It is about people and about the American culture that is about the individual. The culture was a technological development. Older world cultures are not necessarily better. The noble savage is a myth.
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DAVE RUBIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What I find fascinating is that so-called libertarians are in favor of a one-world government forming and socialist-loving immigrants invading the country. Very strange.
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I don't care, please stop advertising this stuff to me google.
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Did he just compare Trump to the Nazis at 1:23 ?
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Trump promises welfare and power to unions? NO. So he is not a populist. Period.
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The reason for national socialism is socialism.
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Trump is liberal in his economic policy due to extreme Tariffs, limiting free trade, and forcing Corporations to operate were he wants them to operate. He is not for decreasing taxes, but IS for decreasing Corporate taxes exclusively. He is for increased spending, making him inherently Left in fiscal policy. In this, he is enabling the Wellfare State, which he proposed to grow, by taxing individuals more (middle class), and he is limiting the nature of a free market by closing the borders for trade, creating a fiscal aggression towards other nations. He is for creating absolute crony capitalism-- by forming corporatism that is somehow acting in the best interests of the US, which is somehow supposed to be acting in the best interests of the citizen--regardless of reality. It is most certainly the government imposing will upon the markets, which is inherently Left in action, regardless of his Right seeming rhetoric. The true Right supports free-trade, less taxes for everyone, and less SPENDING.
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Actually coming from a populist country, let me tell you Trump is not populist. Populism ALWAYS promises welfare and big (worldwide usually) government. Trump has promised lower taxes and congressional term limits. He's just a protectionist capitalist with a lot of nationalism in his rhetoric.
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Actually coming from a populist country, let me tell you Trump is not populist. Populism ALWAYS promises welfare and big (worldwide usually) government. Trump has promised lower taxes and congressional term limits. He's just a protectionist capitalist with a lot of nationalism in his rhetoric.
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This is what is happening in our world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism
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Trump wants free and fair trade. Our current free trade deal with China is under the guise of them being a capitalist state. They biolate the rules of the WTO by interfering directly with the free market. The bully patents away from companies as well. Wanting to only have free trade with free countries is not economic isolationism. It is using the power of our economy into a weapon.
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It is hilarious that everyone think it is strange, when someone is telling the truth.
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WTF??
Trump said 70% of business regulations "can go".
He is calling for more open competition in healthcare, CUTTING the corporate tax down to 15%, curbing ileagal immigration and securing the border.
What the hell is "left of centre" about this? What is "nationalist collectivism" about this?
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Trump is nationalist. And nationalism is collectivism based on nation, so he is collectivist as well. Anyone who disagrees, can reply to me their arguments on why he is not for national collectivism.
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wich is the music at the bottom?
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I wish trump would speak out against the welfare state, I'd be able to support him more that way
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quite eloquently put.
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Why does this guy think nationalism and anti-globalism are bad?
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