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The Dig: Interregnum w/ Aziz Rana, Nikhil Pal Singh, Wendy Brown

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Is the Culture War Fixation of the Moment Less Important Than It Is in White Wing Politics?

The culture war fixation of the moment is less important than the fact that there always is a culture war fixation, says Simon Tisdall. He asks how it functions for white wing politics given its grounding in this sort of threatened mythologized american family. The nativest anti immigrant sentiment was connected to an argument about, you know, the problems with globalization, he writes. And i think t that kind of proceeds apace, because native sentiment continues to be very, very powerful in the right, and so do school choice efforts as part of their attack on public schools.

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