The truckers revolt has exposed the left s class hatred – spiked
If only this were a one-off. Essentially every time working-class people have revolted against the establishment in recent years the left has joined with the centrists to denounce them as fascists. The Brexit vote? Fascists! The Trump revolt? Super fascists! The gilets jaunes? French fascists! It s like a tic at this point, a form of political Tourette s bred of the left s profound disorientation.
Not all populist revolts are the same. Some are more positive or coherent than others. A previous generation of leftists might have hoped to shape such bubbling discontent with the neoliberal status quo. But today s leftists are so cloistered, so bourgeois, so much more comfortable in the faculty lounge than on the factory floor, that they not only can t lead these revolts, they really don t want to.