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Trump Makes Frightening Far Right Promises in Inauguration Speech (truthout.org)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Plenty of petit bourgeois suburbanites and urbanites voted for this, too.

Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs

But scapegoating poor whites keeps the conversation away from fascism’s real base: the petite bourgeoisie. This is a piece of jargon used mostly by Marxists to denote small-property owners, whose nearest equivalents these days may be the “upper middle class” or “small-business owners.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yea. I kinda call the burns shithole small town USA, as well. Of course every spectrum voted for him but I drove through Arkansas for the eclipse and it was horrific.