The agenda of the Democratic Party’s left wing has more political support than at any time since the era of the Great Society. Majorities of Americans favor Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, a wealth tax on the rich,…
Race, Class and Joe Biden’s Election
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Joe Biden and the Democrats did not win the November election decisively enough to drive Donald Trump’s neofascist threat back to the shadows. Trump’s shadow victories Trump – despite four years of corruption, incompetence and often clownish behavior – actually increased…
Biden and the American Left
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Joe Biden may not lead in moving toward a future that is more social democratic, but he cannot stop the Left’s momentum towards it. The plutocrat-friendly “centrism” that has dominated American politics and both parties for the last 40 years…
Could the Pandemic Re-elect Trump?
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The March boost in Donald Trump’s approval ratings, already modest compared with those of other U.S. presidents in times of crisis, has now faded. Joe Biden, certain to be the Democratic Party’s candidate in the November election, is leading Trump…
Iran: Democrats Are Letting Trump Off His Own Hook
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American are not isolationists, but they tell pollsters that they strongly oppose their country playing the role of global policeman. For many of Trump’s 2016 voters in depressed communities in battleground states, “America First” meant spending less time on the…
The Myth of the Moderate Democrat
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The rout of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in the recent British general election quickly fed into the assertion of conventional wisdom among U.S. pundits: Democrats can only win next year’s U.S. election with a candidate who campaigns from the “center.”…
Will Americans Support a Big Green Government?
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The Green New Deal is a big complex idea. Pulling it off requires a big competent government. Yes, the bulk of the new jobs and opportunities will be in the private sector, and much of the work will be done…
Democrats Should Not Stop Now
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“When you strike at a king, you must kill him,” observed Ralph Waldo Emerson. The impeachment hearings have wounded Trump, but he is far from politically dead. Therefore, Democrats are making a big mistake if they wrap up the House…
Breaking Out of the Democrats’ Paralysis on Immigration
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Trump has signaled that he will make immigration a major—if not the major— theme of his re-election campaign. He could not even resist the temptation to immigrant-bash in his supposed consolation tour of El Paso and Dayton. He is backed…
Why are Leading Democrats Supporting Trump on Venezuela?
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Ramping up war-fever against Iran, Donald Trump seems to have jerked his erratic attention span away from his campaign to overthrow Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. The embarrassing fiasco of pretender Juan Guaidó’s failed coup last month temporarily frustrated Trump’s search for…