Democratic Party

As predictable as death and taxes is the quadrennial injunction from liberals for progressive third parties to cease and desist. Equally predictable is the warning that this will be the most decisive presidential election in U.S. history. Given the prospect of four more years of Trump, do they have a valid thesis, or are they once again just sheep-dogging those of little faith back into the true church of the Democratic Party?

Aaron MATÉ
Gabbard has filed a $50 million defamation suit against Clinton for labeling her a “Russian asset.” Independent journalist Michael Tracey joins Pushback to discuss.
Guest: Michael Tracey, independent journalist.

thegrayzone.com

If Russians are trying to affect American elections then they are going to have a rough time competing with Multinational Big Media and Big Finance who already own the US Presidential campaign cycle lock, stock and barrel.

“Pelosi is crushing McConnell, step by strategic step.”
So a true-blue liberal website known as the Daily Kos declared in a bizarre headline last month. It’s as good an example as any of how completely Democrats have retreated into a fantasy world all their own.

Caitlin JOHNSTONE
Democratic Party royal family member Chris Cuomo delivered a pearl-clutching, hand-wringing monologue on CNN last night about how appalling and outrageous it is for Republicans to accuse Democrats of having covert loyalties to a foreign government.

Caitlin JOHNSTONE
Democratic Party royal family member Chris Cuomo delivered a pearl-clutching, hand-wringing monologue on CNN last night about how appalling and outrageous it is for Republicans to accuse Democrats of having covert loyalties to a foreign government.

The U.S. Deep State loves Senator Elizabeth Warren: It’s a pity the American public, even the Democratic base doesn’t agree with them:
Warren has been implausibly sold by the U.S. Mainstream Media, more out of touch with their own public than the Bourbons were before the French Revolution, as the next “principled” leader of the Social Democratic Soft Left and the figure to unite her party and sweep President Donald Trump from power.

Paul STREET
Anyone who hoped that the terrible experience of a neofascistic presidency might jolt the Democratic Party media and politics establishment into embracing the basic lesson of the 2016 election – that running a dismal, dollar-drenched centrist well to the right of the citizenry for president just guarantees right-wing control of the United States’ executive branch – is certain to be disappointed.

Getting rid of Trump means taking seriously “shit-life syndrome”—and its resulting misery, which includes suicide, drug overdose death, and trauma for surviving communities.

Norman SOLOMON
A central premise of conventional media wisdom has collapsed. On Thursday, both the New York Times and Politico published major articles reporting that Bernie Sanders really could win the Democratic presidential nomination. Such acknowledgments will add to the momentum of the Bernie 2020 campaign as the new year begins — but they foreshadow a massive escalation of anti-Sanders misinformation and invective.