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Vol. 81/No. 27 July 24, 2017
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US rulers’ crisis continues with liberals’ drive to
oust Trump
BY SETH GALINSKY
AND JOHN STUDER
Much of the liberal media, Democratic Party politicians, some
anti-President Donald Trump Republicans and the middle-class left refuse
to accept that he is president and hope their relentless assault against
members of his administration and family will lead to indictments, get
him impeached or worse.
These forces are determined to take what are political differences with
President Trump and turn them into criminal matters. That is the meaning
of their endless “investigations.” Over the last few days, their focus
has become some emails and a meeting between Donald Trump Jr., and
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Jared Kushner, the president’s
advisor and son-in-law, and then Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort
also attended some of the meeting. Kushner reportedly left 10 minutes
after it began.
This is “disturbingly close” to treason, New York Times columnist
Charles Blow insisted July 13. He goes on to say Trump is “not only a
disgrace but also an assault on the culture and the country.”
“Take comfort in this eternal truth,” Blow concludes, “for all things,
there comes an end.”
The media, the late-night comedy shows and morning news sing the same
shrill song. “Mainstream media are speaking almost in unison; they are
out of control with a consistency that shows they have forgotten what
control feels like,” David Bromwich writes in “The Age of Detesting
Trump” in the July 13 London Review of Books.
Target is the working class
The hysterical anti-Trump witch hunt continues to grow. It shows an
absolute determination to do whatever it takes to drive him out of office.
The real target is the working class the rulers see behind Trump’s
election.
In a previous week’s column, Blow called Trump, “a madman” who “himself
is the offense,” as is anyone who supports him.
The rulers fear the working class because they see the anger and
wide-ranging discussion by working people on the bruising effects of
today’s capitalist economic crisis, leading to the class struggle to come.
Trump’s election registered a deep political crisis in both the
Democrats and Republicans.
The hysteria is amplified by petty-bourgeois leftists, who write off the
majority of the working class and can “understand” the logic in efforts
to assassinate Republican elected officials. By focusing their fire on
President Trump, they give support to the Democratic Party, and to
capitalism.
Workers World Party and its newspaper called the June 14 assassination
attempt by Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson, who targeted
Republican congressmen at a baseball practice, “an anomaly” — that is, a
freak that runs contrary to what the paper alleges is the real threat
today: racist, sexist and anti-gay attacks by the government, built on
growing prejudice in the working class.
“The targets of the shooting were reactionary Republicans,” Workers
World says. “The person carrying out the shooting felt threatened by the
Republicans’ attacks on the poor.”
But it is the liberal, left hysteria against Trump that spawned
Hodgkinson’s attempt to reduce the number of Republican representatives
in Congress. And it’s responsible for the threats of more attacks from
Mark Pritchard, who was arrested after he broke into the Arizona office
of Republican Sen. Jeff Flake. “You know how liberals are going to solve
the Republican problem?” Pritchard told Flake’s staff. “They are going
to get better aim. That last guy tried, but he needed better aim.”
Flake was on the ball field when Hodgkinson opened fire.
Workers World says “revolutionaries need to get better organized, to get
more militant, to find means of mass resistance and self-defense that
will make it impossible for the ruling class to continue its deadly
assault on the masses.”
But backhanded support to the Democratic Party and rationalization of
violence against alleged rightists only strengthen the hands of the
ruling class. They provide a handle for government attacks on workers’
political rights.
They are deadly obstacles to workers being able to discuss and debate
the road forward in the face of today’s capitalist economic crisis.
Working people need to take political power out of the hands of the
capitalist class and its two crisis-ridden parties, the Democrats and
Republicans.
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