I hear people exclaim what we need is a popular front against Trump and Trumpism. What I find striking here is that it suggests that such a front doesn’t yet exist. But it does, unless you have a bookish understanding of the term. And it is broad in character and scope. So the challenge isn’t to “build a popular front,” but to deepen and extend it further for the purpose of defending, first of all, the results of the election, but also addressing other sides of an unfolding crisis. But again, the immediate task on which everything else turns, is to assure that the election results are secured and that the Inauguration of a new president and vice president takes place on Jan 20.
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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.
