Rescuing American democracy requires more than prosecuting Donald Trump.
Source: Opinion | Trump’s Indictment Won’t End 21st Century Fascist Movement He Unleashed | Common Dreams
Rescuing American democracy requires more than prosecuting Donald Trump.
Source: Opinion | Trump’s Indictment Won’t End 21st Century Fascist Movement He Unleashed | Common Dreams
A group of more than 70 House Republicans introduced legislation this week that would make elements of the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent, delivering a huge windfall to the rich and choking off more federal revenue at a time when Republican fearmongering over the national debt is at a fever pitch.
Source: ‘Absolute Hypocrisy’: GOP Unveils Bill to Make Trump Tax Cuts Permanent While Howling About Debt
If this past week presents any single lesson, it’s the social costs of greed. Capitalism is premised on greed but also on guardrails—laws and norms—that prevent greed from becoming so excessive that it threatens the system as a whole.
Source: Opinion | Trump, Bankman-Fried, Musk: Monsters of American Capitalism | Common Dreams
The American media needs to call this movement what it is, fascism, and demand accountability and answers from the thousands of Republican politicians nationwide who refuse to repudiate it.
Source: Opinion | Trump Is Not Our Biggest Problem: It’s the Open Fascism He Has Unleashed | Thom Hartmann
The publication accuses top Trump officials of “failed stewardship” and a “persistent pattern of political interference” that undermined the nation’s response to a pandemic that has killed more than a million people in the United States.
Source: Final House Covid Panel Report Exposes ‘Reckless’ Trump Pandemic Response
The neoliberal political and media establishments are deeply discredited among the popular classes, especially among the working class—and especially among Whites, who mostly abstain from voting. This situation is responsible for the growth of the ultraright that preceded Trump, and which he has used in a very astute way by presenting himself as an “anti-neoliberal establishment”.