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

Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals · Feb 17, 2021 · 1h 9m

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…