Daily Archive: November 20, 2016

The spectacular demise of the Clinton (cash) machine-captured, neoliberalcon Democratic Party, when faced to the Trump phenomenon, would necessarily entail a radical reorientation to appeal, once again, to its natural constituency – US labor and progressive reformers. Michael Hudson forcefully argues that’s the only way out; “Are they to stand by and let the party be captured in Hillary’s wake...

In my opinion, the most revealing American political event in the last decade was the Democratic Party’s embrace of Hamilton, Not Just The Musical, and in the process doing a 180 away from Jeffersonian populism. Hamilton: An American Musical ‘s identity as a liberal touchstone in these troubled times was affirmed when the audience boo’d Trumpveep Mike Pence when he...