Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "The Americans Didn't Vote With Their Wallets || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. The Democratic Party was the party of working man. Stress on was. In other countries it would be called the Labor Party, or something along those lines. The working man at the beginning was more likely to be part of a labor union. As labor unions became less powerful and as more people went into white collar jobs, the Democrats looked around for ways to keep their numbers up. That is when they brought in the minorities. This included groups such as blacks, Hispanics and Jews. The only common thread is that these groups were either ignored or disparaged by the Republicans. The reality is that they generally had little in common outside of their feeling of "oppression" by the white man. This was basically intersectionality before we used that term. That is a very corrosive way to do politics, by the way. What Trump did, and it was all Trump, was to break down that coalition of the oppressed. Just look at what is happening in Chicago. Look at clips from the Chicago City Council meetings recently. There you have blacks and Hispanics wearing MAGA hats (I even saw one MAHA hat) and tee shirts reading "Chicago Flips Red". Can you even imagine that? I live in the Chicago area and was talking to a high-level Democrat operative/donor once about navigating some government programs. The first thing he asked me was my ethnicity. It was not one of the useful ones. So, what we are seeing is the periodic realignment of politics and culture that George Freidman (who Peter used to work for) talked about in his book "The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond". Trump is accelerating the process. It would be interesting to see what Freidman thinks now.
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  2. Peter's TDS is in full view from about 1:45 on. It kind of diminishes his analysis.
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