Democrats To Blame For Trump’s Triumph: Owen Jones In New York - w/. Jeremy Cohan
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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How the Democratic Establishment handed victory to Donald Trump. With Jeremy Cohan in New York.
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| 0:00.0 | Look at you with your fancy pants job, sitting at your laptop all day, on your video meetings, |
| 0:06.9 | saying things like, let's circle back on this, or can you drill down on that, or deep dive. |
| 0:15.2 | You know what you are, don't you? You're entitled, that's what? |
| 0:19.9 | That's right. Most people who use a screen at work are entitled to claim free eye care. |
| 0:24.6 | Ask your boss about getting one of our vouchers. |
| 0:27.6 | Should have reached out to Speck Savers. |
| 0:30.6 | Donald Trump is the next president of the United States and it's his most extreme incarnation, the people around |
| 0:39.2 | him the most extreme yet. How the hell has this happened? The democratic establishment |
| 0:44.6 | were really cocky. They really briefed in the moment up to this that they thought they had this. |
| 0:51.3 | And they were talking about a really decisive victory for Kamala Harris |
| 0:57.8 | and her faction, I suppose, of the Democratic Party. Well, that hasn't happened. It's been a |
| 1:04.2 | catastrophe for them. And now the consequences are going to be felt not just by the US, but by the |
| 1:09.0 | rest of the world. But I think we know what's going to happen. They're not going to accept that accountability and they're going to look elsewhere. And that struggle is really important. What happens next will be determined by the question of accountability. I'm at the Democratic Socialists of America Watch Party here in Brooklyn. |
| 1:29.3 | Jeremy, hello, how are you? |
| 1:30.3 | Tell me who you are. |
| 1:31.3 | I'm Jeremy Cohen. |
| 1:33.3 | I'm the co-chair for several years of NYCDSA, |
| 1:36.3 | New York City Democratic Socialist of America, have been active. |
| 1:39.3 | I mean, I'm getting like super deja vu because I joined NYCDSA |
| 1:43.3 | right after Trump was elected in 2016. |
| 1:46.3 | So yeah, and here we are again. |
| 1:49.7 | Hello darkness, my old friend. |
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