"Left-Conservative" (?) author Michael Lind strikes again. I have previously linked to his articles on foreign policy and reviewed his book "The New Class War".
In the article linked below, published in the Jewish magazine Tablet, Lind tries to place the storming of the Capitol on January 6 (which he blames on Trump) in a broader context.
Lind holds both Republicans and Democrats responsible for the increased polarization, going all the way back to Newt Gingrich's term as Republican Speaker of the House and the GOP weaponization of impeachment during the Clinton-Lewinsky affair. More recently, there are the actions of the Democrats: the bizarre conspiracy theory that Trump is a Russian agent, the 2020 impeachment, and the BLM-ANTIFA riots, which Lind see as a Democratic provocation. So while Lind denies election fraud and sharply condemns Trump, he nevertheless believes that the Capitol breach is part of a much larger scenario.
Culturally, that context includes increasing anomie, rootlessness and restlessness. Lind identifies five long term crises of the US system, including multi-culturalism, unaccountable political elites, and a globalized economy destroying real jobs. He fears that the increase in male working class unemployment and poverty is a ticking time bomb. All over the world, restless young men form the backbone of terrorist and extremist movements (and crime gangs).
For Lind's proposed solutions (or lack of them), see my review of "The New Class War" elsewhere on this blog.
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