{"id":173375,"date":"2020-11-23T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=173375"},"modified":"2020-11-23T04:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T04:05:30","slug":"the-new-ruling-coalition-opposition-to-afghanistan-withdrawal-shows-its-key-factions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/11\/the-new-ruling-coalition-opposition-to-afghanistan-withdrawal-shows-its-key-factions\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Ruling Coalition: Opposition to Afghanistan Withdrawal Shows Its Key Factions"},"content":{"rendered":"

19 Nov 2020 – An unholy union of the National Security State and the neocon-backed and corporate-funded Democratic Party are about to assume power: with media-supported internet censorship a key weapon.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Trump era has engendered numerous fractures, one might say realignments, in the political order. Long-time ideological allies are now adversaries, and long-time political enemies are now in full-fledged coalitions. These shifts are not temporary or Trump-dependent but enduring, because they are grounded in shared core beliefs about the defining debates shaping our new politics and how to consolidate real power: call it the Lincoln Project Syndrome.<\/p>\n

One major reason for this transformation is a fundamental difference in how to understand Trump: is he the primary author of America\u2019s pathologies or merely a symptom of pathologies which long pre-dated him? Relatedly: is removing Trump from power a vital step in returning the U.S. to its previous status as a benevolent and law-abiding republic, or is isolating him as the principal cause of the nation\u2019s woes a cynical propaganda tactic for whitewashing the sins of those who are actually responsible so that they can rebuild their reputations and again assume power? Were Trump\u2019s policies some radical, unprecedented aberration from U.S. political tradition or, stylistic quirks aside, a standard continuation of it?<\/p>\n

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How one answers those questions \u2014 along with whether one believed that the Kremlin had infiltrated<\/a> the White House and assumed command of the levers of U.S. power<\/a> through elaborate blackmail schemes or whether one recognized that this was a CIA-fabricated propaganda fraud excavated from crusty Cold War scripts \u2014 determined where one fell on many of the most contentious political debates over the last four years (my answer to all of the questions is the latter choice<\/a>).<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the millions of Americans who, due to fear of Trump, began paying close attention to politics and consuming news products only in 2016 were such easy marks for peddling fear-mongering narratives and revisionism: because they lacked the crucial historical context in which to place Trump and understand his ascension to the presidency.<\/p>\n

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TO CONTINUE READING\u00a0<\/a>Go to Original \u2013 greenwald.substack.com<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Glenn Greenwald\u00a0is\u00a0one of three co-founding editors of <\/em>The Intercept. He is a journalist, constitutional lawyer, and author of four <\/em>New York Times best-selling books on politics and law. His most recent book, <\/em>\u201cNo Place to Hide,\u201d is about the U.S. surveillance state and his experiences reporting on the Snowden documents around the world. Prior to co-founding <\/em>The Intercept, Glenn\u2019s column was featured in the\u00a0<\/em>Guardian\u00a0and<\/em> Salon. He was the debut winner, along with Amy Goodman, of the Park Center I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism in 2008, and also received the 2010 Online Journalism Award for his investigative work on the abusive detention conditions of Chelsea Manning. For his 2013 NSA reporting, he received the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting; the Gannett Foundation Award for investigative journalism and the Gannett Foundation Watchdog Journalism Award; the Esso Premio for Excellence in Investigative Reporting in Brazil (he was the first non-Brazilian to win), and the Electronic Frontier Foundation\u2019s Pioneer Award. Along with Laura Poitras, <\/em>Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013. The NSA reporting he led for the <\/em>Guardian\u00a0was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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