ArticlesDecember 5, 20241 min read

Not a normal transition

Sam Webb

Judging only by the names and resumes of Trump’s proposals to fill top government positions, this isn’t a normal transition of power from one democratic government to another. The incoming administration doesn’t fit on the same bourgeois democratic continuum of its predecessors. To put it another way, it’s a different political species, precisely what kind we can’t say at this moment, but that will come into view in the early going, I suspect.

What we can say, generally speaking, is that the new administration comfortably takes up space on another continuum that is right wing extremist, racist, misogynist, homo and transphobic, xenophobic, authoritarian, christian nationalist and led by a strongman. Will it be in the mold of Orban’s Hungry or Putin’s Russia? Or Mussolini’s Italy? Is Trump a fascist? He has many of the markings. In any case, brace for an assault of unprecedented scope and depth, the likes of which we have never seen.If I’m wrong, I will be so happily!

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Sam Webb

I'm a long-time socialist and activist, but new to the blogging world. I hope to bring a different perspective on politics, sports, culture, and Marxism. Besides blogging, I also leave plenty of time for swimming, hiking, ESPN, music, reading, drinking good beer, and, not least, my family and friends. I wish I could play basketball, but my knees ruled out that possibility long ago. While I currently reside in New York, my politically formative years were spent in Portland, Me. and Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s. I graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (where I played basketball) and received a MA in economics from the University of Connecticut. I was the national chairperson of the Communist Party, USA from 2000 until 2014 when I stepped down at the convention. In 2016 I resigned from the Communist Party two years later. We were no longer on the same page.

Not a normal transition

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