The backlash theory of history

December 6, 2024

Here's a simple way of understanding our recent presidential elections

The election of Donald Trump in 2016 was a backlash against the Obama presidency, the 2008 Great Recession, and neoliberalism or globalism.

The election of Joe Biden in 2020 was a backlash against Donald Trump’s perceived mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic.

The election of Donald Trump in 2024 was a backlash against the rigged economy fostered by the neoliberalism or globalism of the Biden administration and the Democratic Party generally.

South: A path of my own

Author: John Morris

With our friends’ warnings of impending civil war, certain death, and worse echoing in our heads, Kim and I set off for a place others were leaving on what would be the adventure of our lives: Twenty years in Africa during a tumultuous period of change.

That adventure is at the heart of “South.”