@Remittancegirl

I grew up with an allergy to anything patriotic. Flag-waving was considered disgusting. At best dispensable or ridiculous, at worst suspicious, frightening or dangerous.

"The mainstream view used to be that the party that presided over boomtimes was the party that could expect to be rewarded. But for Trump voters who believe they are the real America, and that the real America has been 'looted, pillaged, raped and plundered,' it’s likely that boomtimes meant something else – evidence they were right."

IT NEVER HAS BEEN ABOUT THE PRICE OF EGGS FOR HIS VOTERS.

#Trump #MAGA #economy #tariffs #nationalism #racism #immigrants
/7

"Sad as it is, the fact remains that when Black Americans are doing well for themselves, too many white people in this country start feeling like something is wrong, something is being taken from them, someone somewhere is cheating them, even when they are in fact thriving. It’s white-power’s zero-sum. If America includes 'them,' it excludes 'us.'"

#Trump #MAGA #economy #tariffs #nationalism #racism #immigrants
/6

"It’s not that Trump voters were mad at Biden, because he didn’t do enough about inflation. I think they were mad at him, because he did more than any president to expand the economic pie to include all those who are usually left behind, especially Black people."

#Trump #MAGA #economy #tariffs #nationalism #racism #immigrants
/5

"It could be that the last election was about money, but not in the way most people think. Fact is, the economy was booming. Inflation was down. Wages were up. Unemployment had rarely been lower. Joe Biden really did grow the economy from the bottom up and the middle out. And in spite of stubbornly high costs, most everyone prospered.

But that may have been the problem."

#Trump #MAGA #economy #tariffs #nationalism #racism #immigrants
/4

"They will blame whomever he tells them to, including nations, as he said yesterday, that have 'looted, pillaged, raped and plundered' the country. These foreigners are the reason he implemented tariffs in the first place, using emergency powers usually reserved for wartime.

Indeed, the more Trump supporters suffer, the closer they are likely going to bind themselves to the president."

#Trump #MAGA #economy #tariffs #nationalism #racism #immigrants
/3

"Over the last 10 years, Trump has swept them up in a story about the cosmic battle between good and evil, in which the chosen people, free and innocent and pure, have been taken advantage of by 'globalists' who are trying to replace them with foreigners with the intention of 'poisoning the blood' of the country, leading to America’s destruction."

#Trump #MAGA #economy #tariffs #nationalism #racism #immigrants
/2

He also envisioned a fractured #EU, torn apart by #nationalism and internal disputes. Cue #Brexit, rising far-right movements, and debates over which pro-#Russian EU party is the biggest headache for #Brussels. And all this was already planned back in 1997.

4/17

Update. The Association of American Universities (#AAU) defense of US higher ed is a bit better. It doesn't focus narrowly on the economy.
https://www.aau.edu/newsroom/press-releases/meeting-moment-facing-americas-research-universities

But it ends on a jarring note of #nationalism.

"America cannot afford to pause for one second in our race with #China and other competitor nations – nations who are doubling down on their investments in university-based research into crucial emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing."

I want US research to be #OpenAccess, and fully available to China and every other country. BTW, I want the same for Chinese research and research from every other country. Taking the nationalist argument seriously makes it an argument against OA, which also makes it an argument against current federal policy (#NelsonMemo) and against the interests of all US universities. Let's remember that science is international. Let's defend open access, not nation-limited access. And let's defend US universities because they're universities, not because they're in the US.

#Academia #Universities
@academicchatter