Jacobin Radio: Far-Right Rising

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🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Legal analyst Harry Litman joins Suzi to unpack the legal and constitutional questions raised in both the Mueller investigation and the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The question that is on the table is whether the Constitution and the traditional practices of the American political system can protect us from the from the power of the extreme right and the march to authoritarianism.

And then Germany: The demonstrations in Chemnitz at the end of August sent chills through Europe and the world, just a year after the electoral successes of the AfD (Alternative for Deutschland) in the September 2017 elections. They reflect the ascent of the far right, including outright Nazis on the German political scene. We talk to long-time analyst of the German far right, Volkhard Mosler, socialist activist in Chemnitz Gabi Engelhardt, and Einde O’Callaghan, a teacher and activist who has lived in Germany for twenty-five years to get an analysis of what is behind the rise of the Right — and the fight against it.

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0:00.0	I'm Susie Wiseman and this is Jackman Radio. I spoke to the superb legal analyst Harry Lippman
0:15.4	to unpack the legal and constitutional questions
0:18.2	raised in both the Mueller investigation
0:20.2	and the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh
0:22.4	to the Supreme Court.
0:23.6	The question that's on the table is can the Constitution and the traditional practices of the American political system protect us from the march to authoritarianism.
0:33.8	We then do an extended look at the political impact in Germany of the demonstrations in
0:38.6	hymnates at the end of August that sent chills through Europe and the world.
0:43.0	They reflect the ascent of the far right, including outright Nazis on the German political scene
0:48.2	manifested especially in the electoral successes of the AFD, alternative for Deutschland in the September 2017 elections.
0:56.6	We talked to longtime analyst of the German far right, Volkard Mosler, socialist activist
1:02.1	in Jimnitz, Gabi Engelhart and Endo Callahan, a teacher
1:06.5	and activist who's lived in Germany for 25 years.
1:10.1	All this coming up on Jacobin Radio and I'm Susie Weisman.
1:25.0	Very pleased to have Harry Littman with this for the first time.
1:29.5	He is a lawyer, a law professor at Bold, UCLACLA, UCSD, political commentator, often on MSMBC and
1:37.0	CNN.
1:38.4	He's a former U.S. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general, and his law practice focuses primarily on representing
1:46.7	whistleblowers in lawsuits brought under the federal and various state
1:50.4	false claims acts and he writes regularly you can find his op-eds in the
1:56.1	LA Times Washington Post New York Times and we're very pleased that he's here
2:00.8	today more importantly I guess or say me as importantly
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