While the results of the US election should be respected, Democrats (and liberals everywhere) must rapidly begin organizing to push back. There is simply too much at stake.
This land is Hisland: the role of sexism in the US elections.
The Trump victory is not the rejection of neoliberalism but the necessary outcome of the neoliberal transformation, and all its destructive excesses.
In politics, long-term socio-economic trends and global shifts matter more than often overstated ‘progressive’ discourses about equality, progress and freedom.
“He is one of the few politicians to openly criticize the Iraq war – that’s why many Iraq veterans voted for him. He doesn’t want to use the military recklessly.”
“Many of his supporters, support him in part. Many are in need of connection and solutions and something new. And that is what I want too.”
“The recent election result in the US should serve as a call for re-invention for many of these organisations.”
Four years after Romney lost to Obama, Trump, travelling in a private plane with a gold-plated bathroom, has been embraced by the working class as a man of the people.
"Trump's election and BREXIT speak louder than the referendum and election results."
Mao once observed, “everything under heaven is in utter chaos. The situation is excellent!” Will China prosper in the era of president Trump?
The new nativism thrives off the failures of neoliberalism. We have entered a dangerous era of anti-liberalism.
Trump will, inevitably, pull the rug out from under his own feet.
