DRAFT: The Democratic Party Is too a Party Dedicated to Securing for the Workers by Hand & Brain the Full Fruits of Their Industry

Behind the paywall, because this is not yet ready for prime time. Daron Acemoglu thinks that is not what we are, & that we are instead the party of "digital disruption, globalization, large...

Behind the paywall, because this is not yet ready for prime time. Daron Acemoglu thinks that is not what we are, & that we are instead the party of "digital disruption, globalization, large immigrant flows, and 'woke' ideas”. I disagree. So, in reply to his rather injudicious and unfair rant denouncing “élites”, I have a counter-rant…

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A rant I find rather puzzling from the very sharp Daron Acemoglu:

Daron Acemoglu: ‘This is not Trump’s win. It is the Democrats who have lost this election. Dems have ceased to be the workers’ party long ago, owing to their support for digital disruption, globalization, large immigrant flows, and “woke” ideas. The transformation is really striking, as I have argued before: now it is the highly educated, not manual workers that vote for Democrats, and if the center-left does not become more pro-worker, it and democracy will suffer… <https://x.com/DAcemogluMIT/status/1854796409792303426/>

It goes on, and on.

But I read it. And I immediately stop short.

I stop short because these are my immediate thoughts:

• Where is the Democrat (besides Matthew Yglesias) who wants a large increase in unskilled immigration?

• Where is the Democrat who ever said that “globalization” was to be unequivocally endorsed rather than something that could be promising if well-managed?

• Ditto for unequivocal endorsement of “digital disruption”—isn’t that Effective Accelerationist movement a quantum-mechanical gluon ball of Randites, Republicans, Extropians, and Transhumanists with next to zero Democrats in it?

• What are these “woke” ideas that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz endorsed that drove away “workers”?

• And who are these “workers”, anyway"? Do you have to be white, male, and have only a high-school diploma to be a worker, or can others be workers too?

I don’t think Daron’s rant is ready for prime time. But, looking at my counter-rant, I do not think mine is ready for prime time either. Hence: paywall: