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G&R Episode 71: The Limits of Trump's Power and the Left's failure to respond to it

G&R Episode 71: The Limits of Trump's Power and the Left's failure to respond to it

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals


G&R Episode 71: The Limits of Trump's Power and the Left's failure to respond to it

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

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Length:
70 minutes
Released:
Feb 17, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode, we offer a postmortem on Trump's presidency and the limits of his power. The "opposition" gave Trump powers that he never had.  He was never popular, his positions never had close to majority approval, his own judges and GOP officials rebuked him, and, as we've talked about plenty, the military and ruling class were opposed to him.  Despite that, Liberals and too many Leftists treated him like a super-monster with incredible skills and remained in fear and anxiety rather than organizing and resisting.  We talk about the reality of Trump's power, and Capitalist power, who wields it, and why we have to stand up to it at all times instead of just giving our demons more power.  Trump was a paper tiger and we need to be prepared to fight going forward.  
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The Limits of Power: Donald J. Trump by Bob Buzzanco (http://bit.ly/3bdnk7X) 

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This is a Green and Red Podcast production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing extraordinaire by Isaac.
Released:
Feb 17, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.