No one knows what the future will bring. Yet, many observers have been quick to announce the decline of American interventionism and the revival of isolationism--the end of an era and the beginning of another.

Rightly or wrongly, Hillary Clinton’s defeat by Donald Trump fuels this prediction, which depresses some and delights other. The conflicted responses to Trump’s victory, based on ideological interests and values, register even within families. However, the most dramatic split reactions to Trump’s victory are exemplified by the left’s reception—liberal or socialist—in the global North versus the global South. If the North reacted to Trump’s victory with suffocated apprehension, the South experienced it as a breath of fresh air, not out of sympathy for Trump but as a rejection of Clinton. More

While it is undoubtedly difficult to see positives through the current despondency within the United States the absence of such positivity should not be framed by the outcome of a conventional process of liberal democracy. Nor is this languishing a consequence of a singular momentary election or absence of an ‘oppositional’ candidate coming to office. Had the inverse of said process emerged, there too would remain many giving shelter to a sense of emptiness. This dearth of joy is centred in the structural reality the majority find themselves. More

The first thing that needs to be cleared from the decks is all the bullshit about the motives of the white working class (WWC). Beyond the fact that it is a dubious term, I have no idea why people voted the way they did, beyond the most obvious assumptions. Next, I don’t care in the least about campaign tactics and their successes or failures. And lastly, all analyses about the so-called politics of the two major parties should be composted along with those who assume senatorial seriousness as they expound on the subject. More