Maybe, just maybe, hope and history will rhyme

Trump could easily go down in flames

While we await the US election result, I am reposting this Lowdown interview with the Washington-based journalist Ben Cohen from the end of October. Ben, who runs the Banter newsletter, was one of the first to cast doubt on the poll-driven narrative that the race was a toss up with Trump the slight favourite.

You can listen on Apple here

On Spotify here

On Amazon here. And on every other podcast network via this link

Ben may be wrong. I think all decent people must hope he is not. But his argument that we should not allow our conversation to be dominated by the pseudo-science of opinion polls remains worth hearing.

It’s time to put my cards on the table and say I believe that Harris will win. If she does, it will be a triumph of anti-fascist politics.

Below is my account from July of why anti-fascist campaigns require huge political skill. Let’s hope we are prasing Harris’s skills by the end of this week.

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If you’re so anti-fascist, why aren’t you more right wing?

Stopping Trump means endless compromises

You think it is easy to oppose fascism? You think it is a principled cause? There’s no cause harder or less principled than anti-fascism. Your sole aim is to stop the fascist winning.

And if that means moving to the right to detach wavering conservatives from your far-right enemy, then move you must.

This is exactly what Kamala Harris is doing as she prepares to fight Donald Trump. It is not a pretty sight, but if they mean what they say, American progressives have no choice but to urge her rightwards.