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      In 2020, Reviving the Spirit of FDR

      In 2020, Reviving the Spirit of FDR

      In a new book, John Nichols outlines tragic decisions that quashed past progressive dreams but offers hope for the years ahead. 

      Harvey J. Kaye
      Jun 26, 2020

      Instigated by the 2016 election debacle that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats "should have won by a landslide," John Nichols' new book, The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace's Antifascist, Antiracist Politics, asks a couple of questions that have haunted many of us:

      Whatever happened to the liberal, social-and-industrial-Democratic party that FDR built in the course of leading Americans against the Great Depression and Fascism? And can progressives yet redeem it? His answers are timely and challenging--though presumably, given the outcome of the 2020 primaries, not the way he had hoped.

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      The Fascists Are Coming for Your Social Security and Medicare

      The Fascists Are Coming for Your Social Security and Medicare

      The warning signs are already here.

      Thom Hartmann
      Oct 17, 2018

      The billionaire fascists are coming for your Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. And they're openly bragging about it.

      Right after Trump's election, back in December of 2016, Newt Gingrich openly bragged at the Heritage Foundation that the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress were going to "break out of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt model." That "model," of course, created what we today refer to as "the middle class."

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      Evolution or Death

      Evolution or Death

      The midterms are a battle for the soul of both parties

      John Nichols
      Oct 01, 2018

      President Donald Trump keeps signaling his determination to remake the Republican Party in the image of Steve Bannon and his circle of wild-eyed racists and xenophobes. Because the media in the United States tend to focus on personality clashes and electoral strategies rather than ideologies and the evolution of political parties, Trump's political project is still too little-noted by the pundits and politicians, who have consistently underestimated the threat he poses. Yet, for those who are paying attention, the President's extreme messaging sends a clear signal."The dog whistles get louder," says anti-racism activist and author Tim Wise.

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