nakedcapitalism | Even though this assessment of the Trump win and the implications for
American politics going forward is long, it’s also meaty and very much
worth your attention. Mark Blyth was virtually the only person to call a
Trump victory from the get-go (a colleague who spends a lot of time
outside the Acela corridor is another member of that club) but also
correctly gamed out how the stock market would react.
Everything Blyth says is incisive, colorful, and on the mark. By
contrast, it’s frustrating listening to Schiller because she is invested
heavily in Dem orthodoxy, and not even in the plausible parts: the
Hillary scandals were manufactured by Republicans, Sanders would have
lost if he were the Democratic candidate, Clinton was a victim of being
a woman with a long political career (hello?). Similarly, towards the
end, Blyth says, “There is no left left. It’s already had its lunch
eaten,” and explains why, and then Schiller begs to differ by trying to
depict the Democrats as still a real force and capable of being
“renovated”. Help me. But she does have some random insightful remarks.
In other words, you can run the video and tune your attention in and
out, although you may then want to go back and listen to just the Mark
Blyth remarks a second time. There’s a lot of solid material here.
