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How a disastrous change in perspective disempowered the left and let the right rise https://www.theguardian.c...
How a disastrous change in perspective disempowered the left and let the right rise https://www.theguardian.c...
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The decline of the traditional leftwing infrastructure – parties, organisations, NGOs and the like – that previously might have given progressives a platform meant that leftwing or liberal celebrities took on an especial cultural significance during the Bush years. For many people on the left – especially as the internet became mainstream – politics became a matter of applauding or sharing an intervention by one or another progressive public figure. To cater to this need, a particular style of humour developed, associated with Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart and similar figure. Throughout the Bush years, progressives kept up their morale by blogging about the latest sketch in which Stewart cut some Fox News blowhard or another down to size. Yet such victories were always pyrrhic, since the ever-present snark of smug politics affirmed the right’s new-class theory even as it mocked it.
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