\u201cThere\u2019s no place like home.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the lesson. Even when home is Kansas.<\/p>\n
The real meaning of this election is not, as bitterly disappointed Hillary supporters still maintain with tears in their eyes and fear in their throats, a victory for racism and sexism.<\/p>\n
The real meaning of this upset is that Wall Street\u2019s globalization project has been rejected by the citizens of its homeland.<\/p>\n
This has major implications for the European nations that have been dragged along into this ruinous project.<\/p>\n
Hillary Clinton was the candidate of the military industrial complex and international finance capital.\u00a0 She designed herself to be the figurehead of those forces, as queen of regime change. She aspired to be the one to remake the world in the image Wall Street dictates. It was a project enthusiastically and expensively supported by the one percent who profit from arms contracts and the trade deals they write themselves for their own interests.<\/p>\n
To distract from the genuine significance of her candidacy, the Clinton campaign appealed to the desire for respectability of educated city dwellers, portraying Trump supporters as racist yokels motivated by a hateful desire to scapegoat minorities as revenge for their own inadequacies.\u00a0 They were \u201cdeplorables\u201d, and you wouldn\u2019t want to be one of them, would you?<\/p>\n
Trump was sexist, because he referred to certain women as \u201cbimbos\u201d.\u00a0 Elizabeth Warren called him out for this, on a platform where Hillary sat listening, mouth…<\/p>\n