Nathan Tankus
President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
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- My working theory of Trumpism is that he is (among other things) the cutting edge of the bosses' campaign to reassert control over their white-collar workforce. The loss of control provided by the physical office during/after the pandemic would then. be part of what they're pushing back against.
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- Surprised too! Especially since its an event study follow up to, among other things, the Indonesia paper from Suresh I know you are familiar with.
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- Ferguson's "Betting on Hitler" paper is a very good starting point on this topic. sites.stat.columbia.edu/gelman/stuff...
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- There was always support, the question is the extent of the support. Just as there was business support for Trump 1. The analogy is for the uptick of support in both cases, not overall business support.
- Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865. Y’all. He identified every one of them. njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...
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View full threadIt connects to a bigger theme I've been interested in for a long time which is that instant manumission was seen as generally reflecting the neglect of slave owners rather than a respect for freedom on the theory that it must be motivated by avoiding caring for elderly/disabled enslaved people.
- So this was seen as requiring support for children more than anything else. "Slave support" and "child support" lawsuits have this common root. Wrote about this some here. daily.jstor.org/indentured-s...
- !!!! Thank you for this correction, that is wild.
- Not a correction! Just a nuance/detail.
- I did a lot of research a decade ago on NY Slavery & want to mention that while the 1827 manumission deadline is true, the children of enslaved people were indentured to their masters & thus, theoretically, someone could have been in indentured because of their parents enslavement as late as 1848
- An interesting thing that has come out of a side project I've been involved in is just how much Léon Blum was infamous as a socialist who supported Zionism and his "endorsement" was the endorsement among famous socialists that Jewish Antizionist socialists had to most frequently combat.
- I just think its important to distinguish which one is the "Trumpism". I also think its important that this is in large part a rationalization in the face of the durability and depth of Trump's core support.
- To compare, business willingness to support Hitler in 1932 and 1933 had Nazism's mass support as a basis, not as a drive of that mass support. While lending that support didn't put them in the driver's seat but instead collapsed the framework which made them so dominate before casting their lot in.
