Saturday, November 9, 2024

■ The Week in Review


'Ready to Fight' for Climate, Students Walk Out Over Trump

"We won't stand by while Donald Trump's dangerous agenda threatens everything we believe in," said one student.

By Jessica Corbett • Nov 8, 2024



Self-Styled Working Class Fighter Trump Readies Cabinet Shaped by Billionaires

"Fascism backed by Big Money is one of the most dangerous of all political alliances," said former Labor Secretary Robert Reich.

By Julia Conley • Nov 8, 2024



DNC Chair Jaime Harrison Calls Sanders Critique of Election Loss 'Straight Up BS'

"Typically, after a major electoral defeat," said one progressive strategist, "party leaders step aside to create opportunities for fresh perspectives and voices that haven't yet had a chance to lead."

By Julia Conley • Nov 7, 2024



Trump Spokesperson Affirms Day 1 Plans for Nation's 'Largest Mass Deportation Operation'

"As always, we will go to court to challenge illegal policies, but it is equally essential that the public push back, as it did with family separation," one rights advocate said.

By Olivia Rosane • Nov 7, 2024



Did Plutocrats Like Mark Cuban and Tony West Help Sink Harris?

"We could see it happening in real-time, right after the convention, when the party consultants and the big donors got their hooks in," said one critic. "They'll be fine though."

By Jessica Corbett • Nov 7, 2024



Unions Say Building Worker Power Is Only Way to Defeat Trump's Fascist Right

"No one—not Donald Trump or JD Vance, nor any one CEO—can stop solidarity," said AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler. "Organized labor is the path forward."

By Jake Johnson • Nov 7, 2024



Sanders Slams 'Big Money Interests' and Consultants That Control Democratic Party After Loss to Trump

"While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change," said the Vermont Independent. "And they're right."

By Jessica Corbett • Nov 6, 2024



Progressive Forces Vow 'Unprecedented Resistance' to Trump 2.0

"We're more prepared than ever to block the disastrous Trump policies we know are coming," said one climate group.

By Julia Conley • Nov 6, 2024



Progressives Say Trump Win Spotlights Rot of Political System 'Bought and Paid for by Billionaires'

"These monied interests are on the frontlines of destroying our democracy, taking away the power of voters through their unprecedented spending in elections," said the executive director of Justice Democrats.

By Jake Johnson • Nov 6, 2024



Global Fears for the Future as Fascist Donald Trump Wins Second Term

"The world is a more dangerous place this morning."

By Jake Johnson • Nov 6, 2024


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■ Opinion


We Will Need Each Other to Confront King Trump

We are seeing in real time how autocracy happens, by creating hopelessness and despair among the mass of people who once might have fought back.

By Will Bunch • Nov 8, 2024


Progressives Must Challenge for the Leadership of the Democratic Party—and Win

We must now be ready to stand up at this challenging moment in our history, confident that our policy agenda suits the needs of 21st century America and provides a pathway out of America’s interminable political crisis.

By Alan Minsky • Nov 7, 2024


Democrats Ignored Every Warning and the Results Are Catastrophic

Now that a fascistic party has won the presidency along with the Senate and apparently the House as well, the stakes for people and planet are truly beyond comprehension.

By Norman Solomon • Nov 7, 2024


Why Democrats Lose Even When Republicans Are So Endlessly Terrible

In large part the campaign reflected the direction the Democratic Party establishment has taken, away from working class issues since the advent of neoliberal policies in the 1970s and carried out by most Democratic Party presidents since.

By Chuck Idelson • Nov 7, 2024


With Trump’s 2nd Win, American Politics as We Know It Is Over

It’s long been clear that this country needs a new politics. To use a shopworn phrase, let’s build back better—after this third and most devastating hurricane of the season.

By John Feffer • Nov 6, 2024


Why Did the Democrats Lose? Because They Gave Up on the Working Class 40 Years Ago

It really hurts to have called this one. I so wanted to be wrong.

By Les Leopold • Nov 6, 2024