The Trump administration is undermining our nation from immigration to the environment, while his tweets and impeachment distract us. Add it all up, says our guest, we can see how he threatens what remains of U.S. democracy.
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Is our democracy in danger are you kidding it's been flushed down the toilet decades ago Trump has nothing to do with it
Totally thought 3 years ago Trump would b the second coming of Hitler, and threaten civil war if he didn't get his way…
Meh. This guy thinks he is saying something profound or deep truth about Trump, but these are the same points that MSM have been saying since he has been in office.
ITS TIME FOR THE IMPEACHMENT PROPAGANDA AND LIES, SHOW .!!!!!!! . WERE BOTH PARTIES ARE INTO IT .!!!!!! . ALL U , HAVE TO DO , IS TUNE , IN YOUR TV 📺 .!!!!! . NEXT , THE CARTOON PRESIDENT 📺 SHOW .!!!!!! .🚨😂🤣😂🚨….
Modern Liberalism is a Mental Disorder. That's why you are all so lost.
Not just the state but God Almighty that gets to be anything the nutjobs imagine
As you said, Trump is a stumbling and bumbling Leader. It was Pres Clinton and Biden that changed welfare and sent US jobs overseas. Neo-Liberals and Neo-Conservatives that has given us endless war and created the surveillance state. Pres Obama repealed corpora delicti, prosecuted more whistle blowers. Where was all the outrage before they gave all this power to the Orange President
It's awful that he is upholding all the laws the DemocRATS wrote and signed into law. AWFUL! Good thing he is also upholding that diplomatic agreement that B Clinton signed with Ukraine. And the Nazi correlation totally discredits your position.
"Acting as something of a stabilising influence in global affairs". Dear lord what naivety. Chomsky's Deterring Democracy tells a very different story. Mussolini was given power in order to stop the Biennio Rosso which saw Northern Italy in particular under workers control. Red flags flew over the main industries of the north. The threat of revolution was real, Mussolini stopped it. Many paid the price with their lives for not completing the revolutionary process. Including Antonio Gramsci.
America's first of series of imperial presidents to come.
You might wonder how its possibe when an imperial power is elected not appointed?
One thing that runs deep in the Anglo Saxon culture in America comes from the Southern plantation owners who defended hereditary privilege based on birth right when the rights of the aristocracies and monarchies of Europe were being challenged by the European capitalist classes.
The idea that all men are created equal contradicted the facts of daily experience for most Southerners at the time still contradicts the Anglo Saxon belief system of race.
A president may never be elected again but passed down from one son or daughter to another in the same family creating a dynasty with a belief system that holds them as above the law, above society, and closest to God. America could become what Russia was of 600 years of dynastic Czarist rule.
European monarchies and dynasties and the Southern slave holders in America in the 19th century had a real affinity for each other, they lament the slave master system as the best most natural order and productive system on earth to be had. They believed the system to be the best method of creating wealth cultivating land, selling and breeding slaves, just as the Physiocrats defended the Feudal nobility. Marx said, " Bourgeois society reproduces in its own form everything against which it fought in feudal or absolutist forms", very insightful. He would see this coming to fruition in Trump, he as the incarnation of an absolute form of power.
While in agreement with the numerous points made in this discussion of how appalling the Trump Presidency is, has been, and will continue to be, I must take issue with the assertion that the United States has long been a force for "stability" in the world. That belief is as delusional as anything emanating from the Trump camp and camp followers.
The second element with which I disagree is one that is entirely omitted from Sasha Abramsky's analysis: the National Security State has been painstakingly crafted since the 1940s to provide instruments and structures of mass repression, surveillance and authoritarian rule. There can be no other aim or outcome when you look at the tremendous, preponderant power of the military, the police and the intelligence services. By their nature these are anti-democratic institutions, wholly unaccountable to the people, and comprising a full array of means and methods for dictatorship. Given the accelerating movement in this regard, coupled with a long-term neoliberal economic policy geared to producing an impoverished, precarious and fearful populace, you have the natural, indeed the inevitable conditions for the breakdown of the old political system and the rise of bizarre Caligula-like figures such as George W. Bush and Donald Trump. If we try to analyse Trump without reference to the immediate events and long-term developments that preceded him, as well as the formidable anti-democratic powers at the core of government, we mistake the task ahead. Getting rid of Trump will not resolve what is in fact the wholesale conversion of an electoral republic with all of its contradictions and crimes, into an absolutist state. Changing Presidents won't change that.
Democracy is a farce and will always be doomed to failure.
F all of them. Psychotic traitors to life everywhere!!! Resist the cannibalistic lemmings or continue just as you have… you'll get exactly what you deserve… EXTINCTION!!! FAKE IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE. STOP. YOU ARE CAPABLE OF SO INCREDIBLY MORE. Here is a clue…now you know how it feels to be a "nothing"… COMMODITIES. OWNED BITCHES! Not me. Not now. Not before. Never. Empathy people. Life lessons hurt…. humanity learns and remembers best through pain. Do unto others as you would have them do to you. So…. how's it feel? Enjoying your captivity? Meatpuppets. Hypocrites. It's about time you begin waking up. It's your choice. Always was. Been here before. Some my remember. Unite and change this BS APOCALYPTIC PARADIGM. Put your asses where your eloquent words are. Be HUMAN BEINGS. Instead of forked tongued lowest common denominators,…excuses and blind Faith will not make it anymore…U are now them. The raping and pillaging is only just getting started…..at least according to most of the American population. But you have been doing this type of crap allover the world. It's been and continues to be done to you also….so much MORE previlant nowadays….. blatant. In your faces… eventually it will come to your door. Better be your brothers keepers..or else there will be nobody there for you when your time comes…. simply because there won't be any body left. It's on you. Time has come. Fact. Sleep well….and I'm the lunatic? Just sayin….
I have officially taken a short position on America.
Democracy? Trump wasnt elected by a popular vote so idk why people keep talking about our democracy dying, it dead, its been dead!
Good guest! Makes great points. But what should not be forgotten is the Dems part in this. Starting the whole Russiagate investigation based on palace intrigues has ofcourse not help. When Trump fights back against this new assault by the Dems it seems only logical he wont take part in another fabricated scandal. Dems have utterly undermined their own legitimacy.
And I thought Steiner's interviewing skills, choice of guest, hapless ignorance, anti-Trump status quo schtick, ultra partisan polÃtics, implicit and explicit American exceptionalism, faux progressive polÃtics couldn't get any worse. Jesus he makes me so angry and frustrated. Fucking move to the corporate medÃa where you belong.
Is democracy in danger?! What democracy? Voter suppression, electoral college over popular vote, on and on, etc.
My favorite part was when he claimed the US was a stabilizing influence for the past 80 years. "The libs"
I'm finally understanding TRNN. Thanks Steiner and Abramovitz. The USA has been a stabilizing influence for eighty years and Trump is screwing it up! These are very ignorant men. Unless they hate the earth and all life and support globalism.