Selections from the December 1, 2024 issue

 COVER/Molly Redden, Andy Kroll and Nick Surgey

‘Put them in trauma’: Inside a key MAGA leader’s plans for a new Trump agenda

EDITORIAL
What to expect from Trump 2.0

JIM HIGHTOWER
Can our elections be made even more vapid? Some are banking on it | Bezos bombs in his role as newspaper owner | The shame of TD Bank’s jolly bankers | CEOs show us how to raise everyone’s pay | Lilly Ledbetter fought the bastards — and won for all of us | Yes, the system is rigged against the working class

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Remember the poor

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Lessons from the election

DISPATCHES
Biden and Democrats are already fighting Trump’s second administration.
Unions say building worker power is only way to defeat Trump’s fascist right.
Progressive forces vow ‘unprecedented resistance’ to Trump 2.0.
Crypto’s $40 million defeat of pro-worker Sen. Sherrod Brown called ‘obscene.’
After $16 billion election, nonprofit tracking money in politics lays off 1/3 of staff.
Wall Street giddy over merger boom as Trump expected to fire Lina Khan.
US postal workers fight massive service cuts.
GOP prepares to shed rules to give Trump his radical cabinet.
Trump spokesperson affirms Day 1 plans for mass deportaton.

ART CULLEN 
Waiting and wondering

ALAN GUEBERT 
Buy more deck chairs or chart a different course

SARAH ANDERSON
State victories against inequality to celebrate despite bleak election day

JOHN YOUNG 
The horse is right where I left it

SABRINA HAAKE 
Trump didn’t win. Disinformation did. First Amendment law needs to catch up with weaponized social media

ELWOOD WATSON 
What about Trump’s mental fitness? 

GENE NICHOL
Getting back in the fight

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Mourn first, then organize

FRANK LINGO 
80 Great songs from 80 years of rock ‘n’ roll

ROBERT KUTTNER 
Tales from the crypt

THOM HARTMANN  
The great dismatling: Trump’s coming attack on America’s economic backbone

SONALI KOLHATKAR 
Trump and Musk are a match leading us to hell

THE BIG PICTURE/Glynn Wilson 
Trump rocks the free world, stunning the American establishment again in apparent Electoral College win

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
A mini fine for an airline; a major victory for the disabled

SAM URETSKY 
Getting Jeff Bezos’ attention

JOE CONASON 
Meet Jack D. Ripper, the new health czar

WAYNE O’LEARY 
The donors

LES LEOPOLD
Why did the Democrats lose? Because they gave up on the working class 40 years ago

JUAN COLE
Trump would be an ‘extinction-level event’ for the planet, turbocharging climate change

EGBERTO WILLIES
It isn’t Kamala Harris who failed. It is America that showed the world who we are.

JAMIE STIEHM 
A long time comin’: On history’s clock

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Election night in America

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
The battle of the billionaire bros

RALPH NADER 
Electing an American Fuhrer as Wall Street cheers and soars

WENDY KEEFOVER and KRISTIN COMBS 
Grizzly 399 was a bear for the ages

ROB PATTERSON
Don’t fall for music snobbery

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
Reformation and liberation

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell 
“Unstoppable” is an unbelievable, upbeat biopic

AMY GOODMAN 
Hatred and racism: Trump’s ominous closing argument

From The Progressive Populist, December 1, 2024

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