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[unable to retrieve full-text content]In a recent economic roundtable, economists Richard Wolff and Prof Michael Hudson analyzed the surprising factors behind Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory. Wolff attributed Trump’s win to a deep, growing resentment among the American working class, disillusioned by four decades of neoliberal globalization. This shift hollowed out U.S. manufacturing, devastated cities like Detroit, and stripped jobs from communities, creating a longing for a...

October 15, 2024 Letters from an American After Trump’s bizarre performance last night in Oaks, Pennsylvania, when he stopped taking questions and just swayed to his self-curated playlist for 39 minutes, his campaign this morning canceled a scheduled interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, according to co-host of the show Joe Kernen. The campaign did not, though, cancel a scheduled live interview today with Bloomberg News and the Economic Club of...

October 8, 2022 by Prof. Heather Cox-Richardson Letters from an American “It’s been a tradition for more than half a century that the major party candidates for president sit down with 60 Minutes in October,” host Scott Pelley said to the camera last night before 60 Minutes aired an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. This year, both Harris and Republican nominee former president Donald Trump accepted an invitation for an...

September 23, 2024 Prof. Heather Cox-Richardson Letters from an American That is how they are describing a desperate Trump . “There’s nothing sadder than an aging salesman trying to close one last deal,” MSNBC’s Ryan Teague Beckwith wrote on September 21. Beckwith went on to list seven of Trump’s most recent campaign promises, most delivered off the cuff at rallies, that are transparent attempts to close the deal with different groups of...

This is not 2016 and Trump got one hell of a shellacking from Harris in the debate. She was smiling . . . This forecast by Nate Silver seems to me to be a bit optimistic. about Trump in the lead with 60-something percent. After Trump’s debate performance with Kamala Harris, I do not see Trump winning. If he does, it will be slight. I still would not ignore Trump. We did one time before, thinking our vote would be funny. Against Hillary...

Joyce Vance at Civil Discourse on Jack Smith’s New Approach. Since trump now has certain immunities due to being a former pres, pres, president as declared by SCOTUS. Took a bit to call trump a president. Jack Smith takes a different approach in indicting trump as citizen trump. He carefully avoids reference to the office of president. This is going to be interesting as this new indictment will be appealed. In a Tuesday afternoon surprise,...

Analyzing Trump’s potential behavior in a debate with Kamala Harris. The smart plan or move would be to allow Trump to babble all he wants to and just remain the calm one. The adult in the room giving reasoned answers to the country’s needs. Don’t give him the room to suck one into his style of debate. Letters from an American by Prof. Heather Cox Richardson The point that is currently holding up plans for ABC’s September 10 presidential...

by Joyce Vance Civil Discourse  By now you’ve probably seen clips from the interview Donald Trump gave on stage at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago today. It was appalling. The only thing worse than the overt racism that came out of his mouth was his apparent belief that he could get away with it. The amazing Aaron Rupar put together an 11-minute cut of the interview that you might want to watch if you...

The Presidential Transition Project called “Project 2025” outlines a road map for how a new far-right presidential administration could take over the country. You can be sure Trump did not write this as it is readable. Former President Trump and his allies’ plan would have devastating impacts on our lives and our democracy, from banning abortion and contraception to gutting our system of checks and balances. One underdiscussed aspect of Project...

After listening to trump about improving the environment, I decided to look it up. It is pretty easy to look up factual evidence. Well, here they are, the answer to another polished trump lie. This list of trump’s accomplishments comes from the NY Times. The date of this updated list is Jan. 20, 2021. It was not done recently to refute the trump candidacy in 2024. It is a report on what the trump administration he selected did during his first...