In our first episode during Trump’s second term, we look at a short (but not comprehensive) list of horrors that the Trump MAGA coalition has unleashed on the US public and how the groundwork for this horror show was laid down by the Biden regime, along with decades of corporate Democratic failures to build any kind of real opposition to the fascist-leaning movements of the Republican Party. In fact, recent Democratic Presidential campaigns have promised to be “tougher” than Trump on certain vulnerable populations.

From the destruction of the social welfare state to ICE raids, deportations, the border wall, Guantánamo, tariffs and the new trade war, along with Trump’s ‘Drill Baby Drill’ ambitions, we have seen complete continuity between Democratic and Republican policies– with each successive administration moving further to the right– enriching more and more billionaires and oligarchs at the direct expense of the working- class, immigrants and refugees, and the environment.

We also examine how the capitalist media plays a pivotal role as a force-multiplier– profiting off of Trump’s domestic terrorism and obfuscating the role of Democrats in enabling this terrorism. Together, these two corrupt parties work hand-in-glove in what has become straight-up class war.

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Reading Notes:

• How Biden set the stage for GOP budget cuts, Stephen Semler
• Medicaid Removed for Nearly 25 Million Americans, Newsweek
• Trump Migrant Deportation Numbers Compared to Obama, Biden, Newsweek
• Biden is now deporting more people than Trump, Reuters
• Biden said he'd stop building the border wall, but is now going ahead on one piece, NPR
• The Bankers on Obama’s Team
  Photo of the Week: Obama, Who Let Citigroup Staff His First Cabinet, Calls for Voter Solidarity, Truth Dig
• Obama's promise to full close Guantanamo Bay, YouTube
• 122 years of US imperialism in Guantánamo: From torture to migrant detention ,Geopolitical Economy Report

• Manchin Poison Pills Buried in Inflation Reduction Act Will Destroy Livable Climate, Center for Biological Diversity
• A Multitemporal Snapshot of Greenhouse Gas Emissionsfrom the Israel-Gaza ConflictClimate Damage Caused by Russia's War in Ukraine