What we have come to call the “neoliberal” era began under US President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s, rather than his Republican successor Ronald Reagan.
As more votes are sorted, it becomes much clearer that Trump’s victory, far from being a landslide, was quite narrow. When the count is finalised nationwide, more voters will have chosen someone other than the bigoted billionaire.
With a week until election day, the polls show the closest race in a long time. To understand how we find ourselves here, we need to take a step back and look at the national, international and historical backdrop to the 2024 election.
Trump may have cornered the market on middle-class and working-class racists. But Harris has proposed only the weakest tea for the millions who are not ideologically committed and looking for economic relief.
Judged from the vantage of macroeconomic indicators, the US economy is, as an economist quoted in the Wall Street Journal put it, “the envy of the world”. But when looking hard at the reality of life and work in the US, all of the economic glitter isn’t gold.
Recognising the Democratic Party as one of the chief pillars of a system that maintains exploitation and oppression in US society is the first step toward building a socialist alternative to it.
When momentous events happen in a media-saturated society, one of the first casualties is any sort of historical perspective. This became clear in the wake of the 14 July assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
