The Democratic Get together is engaged in a harmful and failed electoral technique. Quite than interesting to the bulk working-class, non-Republican voters, the celebration is courting right-wing politicians like Liz Cheney whereas funding far-right Republican candidates on this 12 months’s main elections. This strategy resembles the disastrous Hillary Clinton marketing campaign’s “Pied Piper” ploy of selling the supposedly “extra beatable” Trump within the 2016 Republican presidential primaries. Why is the Democratic Get together lavishly funding Trump stooges akin to John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official who claimed that Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory was “mathematically inconceivable?” Why do they see the stoking of fascist hearth as an efficient marketing campaign technique? Even The New York Instances has known as the tactic of funding far-right pro-Trump candidates a “Cynical Low for the Democratic Get together.” Historian Paul Avenue joins The Chris Hedges Report to debate what’s going down on our weird political panorama as we head in the direction of the midterm elections.
Paul Avenue has taught at quite a few Chicago-area universities and is the creator of This Occurred Right here: Neoliberals, Amerikaners, and the Trumping of America (New York: Routledge, 2021). He additionally writes recurrently for Counterpunch.
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