A recent article posted by the conservative magazine, Chronicles, addresses the long-festering issue of how and why the American left “hates” former Donald Trump so much, noting that “(t)he hatred goes beyond the man’s style, his mean words, and his policies. CNN’s Anderson Cooper provided a clue, when, on the evening of Jan. 6, he sarcastically suggested that the rally-goers would return that night to their Marriott hotels and their Olive Garden restaurants — the implication being that only low-class deplorables would dine at the Olive Garden.”
Wherever your politics dwell, it would be interesting, even edifying, to hear why you believe the left “hates” Trump as much as they seem to.
In terms of the presidency, I got the sense that many viewed Trump’s election win as a step backward in terms of historical progress, if you will, where electing a white male as seemingly regressive as Trump connoted an “epic u-turn” in terms of American identity. Especially when viewed from the context of the country having just previously voted in a young black man, which had been understood by at least the left as a “step in the right/progressive direction.” (Never mind the drone war escalation.)
As awful of a candidate as Hillary Clinton might have indeed been, her win would have at least kept the U.S. on the path of historical/political progress. With Trump, it’s believed, the country took leaps backward — which of course made the prospect of voting for Biden much more palatable, as the election of this old white dotard could be regarded as a step forward in the right/progressive direction. And just as Trump was regarded by the religious right as an “imperfect vessel” for the pro-life movement, Biden is the secular left’s “imperfect vessel” to implement socio-politico and economic change.
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This week, The Palestine Laboratory Podcast drops its final episode for all subscribers, focusing on how technology used by Israel in its occupation and siege of Gaza is exported worldwide to democratic and authoritarian governments alike.
Today, we have a story by journalist Georgia Gee highlighting one of those companies, Cellebrite. Since the war on Gaza, Cellebrite has reportedly been assisting the Israeli government with locating the phones and locations of Hamas operatives. They are using that success to leverage contracts with police departments and federal in the U.S.
The Grayzone’s Jeremy Loffredo on the censorship regime imposed by the Israeli government to cover up everything from war crimes to military losses, and how it was exploited to lock him in solitary confinement and threaten him with serious national security crimes for his factual journalism.
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the public relations backfire that ensured when Israel published the last moments of Yahya Sinwar in Gaza.
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on US envoy to Lebanon’s cynical appeal to the Lebanese government, in which he demanded it sacrifice its sovereignty or pay the price.
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the shocking logic deployed by Kamala Harris when asked about Democratic voters angered by her unwavering support for Israel during a CNN town hall.
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate take a look at the aerial bridge maintained the Biden-Harris administration has maintained to Israeli military bases for over a year of continuous siege, slaughter and deprivation in Gaza and beyond.
India and Global Left
Yanis Varoufakis: What a year of genocide against Palestinians has taught us about West?
