[Peace-discuss] Depraved Sociopath Bill Kristol Very Excited About Recent Iran Developments

[David Green]

Caitlin Johnstone's invocation of Bill Kristol's alliance with the
over-riding establishment, in relation to Trump's qualified resistance
(especially in regard to Iran & Israel vis a vis N. Korea) is historically
ironic and evocative.

Bill's father, Irving Kristol, established the neo-conservative movement
primarily in relation to domestic issues; a reaction to the Civil Rights
movement and black demands. He worked with Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Michael
Novak, and Nathan Glazer to promote a notion of white ethnic solidarity--a
perceived break from the "melting pot"--as a means of both denying and
defending white structural privilege, and muting the radical effects of
opposition to the Vietnam War and Black Power.

As neoconservatism evolved into the 1970s, it became more identified with
the continuation of the Cold War, promoted by Senator Henry Jackson. Irving
Kristol (and Norman Podhoretz) was central in this evolution. Along with
that, of course, was support for Israel post-1967, and the discovery of the
new demon, the Palestinians and Arabs, as part of Cold War opponents.

Thus the "white ethnics" (Reagan Democrats) were secured for USFP goals
post-Vietnam.

Trump's father and Trump himself (NYC, Central Park 5, etc.) were/are part
of the white ethnic "revival;" but Trump, operating in a very different
economic context, got elected partly by taking the "white ethnics" (white
working class) off the dominant (Irving Kristol, Bill Kristol) reservation,
in terms of both trade and USFP.

But Bill Kristol and the Israel Lobby (both Adelson (Repub) & Saban (Dem))
are working hard to bring him back on the reservation, with Javanka etc.

But *only *demonizing Trump misses these historical ironies and subtleties,
and dismisses/abandons the "white working class" and its own structural
travails. Which is not to say that Trump evokes any confidence in terms of
his ability to resist, if you want to call it that, the
neoliberal/neoconservative agenda of Kristol and others.

DG
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