Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about the 2024 election and the politics of America’s power elite. Keith Preston is a historian, social scientist, political analyst, author, lecturer, trends researcher, and the editor of Attack the System. Follow Keith on Twitter.
Topics:
-Factions of America’s ruling class, including the Northeastern establishment, Sunbelt capitalist class, and Wall Street and Silicon Valley new money-What conspiracy theorists get wrong about the nature of power-How elites cultivate constituencies-How the elite’s opposition to Trump is more about decorum and instability than policy-Keith’s prediction that the elites will negotiate a deal with Trump-Keith’s prediction that Trump will govern as a normie moderate Republican for his 2nd Term-The Israel Lobby favoring Trump over Biden-How the Israel conflict is weakening wokeness and the alliance between progressives and the neoliberal establishment-Why Biden’s re-election is better from an anti-establishment standpoint-America’s three political blocks, MAGA Nationalist Populists, Centrist Neoliberals, and the Progressive Left-How the Nationalist Right will further radicalize with limited growth potential-Why partisan cycles favor Democrats over the next few decades-The political realignment over social class-The hyper-capitalist Sunbelt elite as a barrier to the GOP turning populist on economics-Why Trumpenomics will likely be inflationary-The risks of the Ukraine and Israel wars escalating-The Europhile Northeastern establishment and Europhobic Sunbelt’s divide over Ukraine-Speculating whether Trump or Biden will win-RFK’s JR.’s brand of bourgeoise bohemian Centrist Populism-The hysteria over the election, such as about Project 2025-Why Democrats are hesitant to replace Joe Biden but plan to replace him with Kamala Harris after the election-Why Biden is the lesser of evils compared to Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris-Why America’s elites’ mercantile nature means that full blown totalitarianism is not likely in America