A socialist activist could not really understand the world they were in unless they could see that there was a little Thatcherite inside of them.

And we might have to say a little Trump inside of us.

But that sense that there's a kind of, that part of that, the common sense of that is to understand that we are sedimented in the forms of common sense.

Everything from the art of the deal, everything from the glamour and the cocaine and the 80s and the mafia stuff, the whole narrative and the whatever the TV show was

and the firing of people on TV. And the whole narrative of that is so embedded in the daily

life of the United States over the last 40 years, that it is hard to actually be to

escape from that narrative in that way. And so in some ways, one necessarily inhabits that

narrative. And so in that way, one might say that Trump is a modality by which Americans live

this reality.

I'm not sure I would necessarily say that, but I would say that that would be very much

in the spirit of Stewart's analysis of Thatcherism.

She was a new kind of conservative.

She wasn't the old-fashioned Tory.

She was just a down-to-earth, grocer's daughter,

and all of the same things, things that were not true at all, but which were part of the narrative

that she was able to tell in that way. And that's, I think, another element in the sort of

articulation of ideological metaphors and tropes and stories into a relations

of representation that are structured in dominance that are maintaining the structures of power

and capital in the society.

You know, and so he ends indeed in this part with the ideologies of racism,

both working class racism and the subjection of the victims of racism to mystifications.

That's a crucial element of how one might understand these articulations.

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