From CommonDreamsPublished on Monday, November 09, 2020 by Common DreamsProgressive Message to Joe Biden: Don't You Dare 'Cooperate' With Mitch McConnell If Biden chooses to 'cooperate' with Mitch McConnell, that choice is likely to set off a political war between the new administration and the Democratic Party's progressive base.byNorman … [Read more...] about Progressive Message to Joe Biden: Don't You Dare 'Cooperate' With Mitch McConnell
Social Justice/社会正義
Hoorays for the Biden/Harris Victory, But the Battle's Far From Over
From CommonDreamsLate Saturday morning and they had just called it. I was sitting here writing with the TV muted and my back to the windows when I started hearing some yelling on the street. I didn’t know what it was, then looked up at the television and saw the news. Outside, fist pumping and cheers, people dancing, car and truck horns honking, whistles … [Read more...] about Hoorays for the Biden/Harris Victory, But the Battle's Far From Over
Donald Trump Was a Monster Forged by the American Free Market
From JacobinDonald Trump was everyone’s monster. “Monster” comes from monstre and monstrum, a portent, … [Read more...] about Donald Trump Was a Monster Forged by the American Free Market
How To Avoid Another Trump
From JacobinNeoliberalism and Postmodern Conservatism Trumpism was both a departure from and a continuation of the neoliberal status quo. On a rhetoric level, Trump broke with the traditional neoliberal outlook by asserting a nationalist project rather than trying to use US power to advance an … [Read more...] about How To Avoid Another Trump
We Were Right To Celebrate Trump’s Defeat. Now We’ll Have To Stay in the Streets for the Next 4 Years.
From JacobinYesterday was a good day. Like so many others, I heard the news of Donald Trump’s loss not from TV pundits, but from spontaneous cheering in the streets. By the time I had grabbed a pot to bang outside, cars in the streets of my New York City neighborhood were … [Read more...] about We Were Right To Celebrate Trump’s Defeat. Now We’ll Have To Stay in the Streets for the Next 4 Years.