To Resist Trump, The Left Must Change, A Zero Hour Conversation With Norman Solomon

Norman Solomon and RJ Eskow discuss the challenges facing the Democratic Party and the need for a united front against the Trump regime.

By The Zero Hour

In this interview with RJ Eskow of The Zero Hour, RootsAction.org executive director and co-founder Norman Solomon discusses the challenges facing the Democratic Party and the need for a united front against the Trump regime. Solomon criticizes the party’s current leadership, highlighting how party operatives and consultants benefit financially regardless of election outcomes. He argues that social movements should drive electoral campaigns, not the other way around, and calls for progressives to simultaneously work to defeat the Republican Party while also pushing for a more progressive agenda.

The discussion covers the role of money in politics, the importance of grassroots activism, and the need for the Democratic National Committee to recognize the urgency of the current political moment.

Currently, Solomon and RootsAction are pushing for an emergency DNC meeting to address the crisis of neo-fascism, noting the party’s historically low popularity, the lack of decisive action, and the need to put up actual resistance to Donald Trump and the MAGA regime.

“This is no time for what Martin Luther King, Jr., called ‘the paralysis of analysis.”’ Solomon says.

Repetition compulsions within the Democratic Party, including among self-described liberals and progressives, unwittingly smoothed the path for Trump’s return to power. Many of the same patterns, with undue deference to party leaders and their narrow perspectives, are now hampering the potential to create real leverage against MAGA madness.

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