It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting way too long.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan, along with my co-host David

Belton. Hello, David. Hello there. And the men of the hour, Ralph Nader. Hello, Ralph. Welcome everybody. You know, a few weeks ago, former President Barack Obama released a video where he references Gen Z favorites, such as Tik-Toc dances and Finstas, a term for fake

Instagram accounts as he tries to appeal to young voters and urge them to vote in

this election. He immersed from his relatively quiet post-presidency

to come out hard for Joe Biden in the Democratic Party last spring and is on the trail with

him during these last weeks of the campaign. But just how much is the Obama legacy and that of the Democratic

Party in general responsible for the rise of a neo-fascist like Donald Trump? Our first guest, journalist and historian Paul Street, has written a book entitled,

Hollow Resistance, Obama, Trump, and the politics of appeasement.

In it, Mr. Street talks about the importance of mass direct action to fight against fascism and he quotes Howard

Zen quote voting is easy and marginally useful but it is a poor substitute for democracy which requires direct action by concerned citizens."

So we look forward to talking to Paul Street about all of that.

In the second part of the show we're going to continue talking about ways to push for a democracy that

represents the masses. Back in 2016 after Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic primary

he formed an organization to harness the energy behind his campaign into a movement that would last beyond his political career.

The movement was called Our Revolution, and today we will join by the chair of our revolution Larry Cohen.

In between as always we'll take some time out to check in with our corporate crime

reporter Russell Mocyber, but first let's talk about how the ground for

Donald Trump was seated during the Obama years.

David?

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