Trump’s assault on the election system won’t prevent Joe Biden from taking his oath of office on Jan 20, but it is further radicalizing an already anti-democratic, authoritarian, white nationalist, Trumpian mass base. If anything, this base, trafficking in conspiracy theories and alternative facts, could well be the most enduring legacy of his presidency. Any hope of weakening this racist, revanchist juggernaut will turn not so much on uplifting words as the enactment of anti-racist and anti-crisis policies by the incoming administration and Congress. Such policies won’t neutralize this reactionary grouping entirely; that is too much to ask for. But if they cause some of its working class supporters (broadly defined) to reconsider their loyalties and views that may be about as much as we can hope for in the short term.
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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.
