Trump, if elected, will employ rhetoric and policies — steep tariffs on imported goods, for example — that were considered heretical in the old GOP — with the aim, among other things, of realigning the working class (or sectors of it) to MAGA’s side of the struggle. It’s no accident that Teamsters president Sean O’Brien spoke on the first day of their convention. Nor is it by chance that in his acceptance speech Trump demanded that UAW president Shawn Fain, who has had the temerity to criticize Trump, “should be fired immediately.”
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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.
