Jacobin Radio: Marcy Winograd, Medea Benjamin, and Robert Brenner

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🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Marcy Winograd, Medea Benjamin put pressure on Biden’s objectionable picks for national security and foreign policy; Robert Brenner on whither the Republicans after Trump? Whither the Democrats with Biden?

CODEPINK's Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin are working on blocking Biden’s most objectionable national security and foreign policy nominees, like China hawk Michele Flournoy for Secretary of Defense, and torture defender Mike Morrel for CIA. They are now concentrating on Avril Haines, tainted by Drones and torture. We also get their assessment of the present moment and their mobilizing and organizing campaign plans.

UCLA Economic Historian Robert Brenner takes a deeper look at the Republican Party after Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, and the storming of the Capitol Building on January 6. While many posit a fracturing of the Republican Party post-Trump, Brenner says that Trump and the Trumpistas define the Party, notwithstanding a small number of defections. So whither the Republicans and MAGA? And what does this mean for the Democratic Party after its stunning success in the election – and especially in Georgia? The Democratic Party now has a huge opening to take advantage of the multiple crises we face in this moment, but will they? We get Brenner’s take.

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0:00.0	This is Jack up in Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman.
0:07.0	On today's program, we go beneath the surface to the extent possible on the tumultuous events of the week and what they mean for both political parties.
0:23.0	But first, we're going to look at the pressure campaigns already in motion with some success
0:27.7	on President-elect Biden's objectionable picks for foreign policy and national security
0:33.0	position with Marcy Winograd, now with Code Pink Congress and Code Pink
0:38.5	co-founder, Medea Benjamin. We'll hear about their successes in blocking China Hawk Michelle Flournoy for Secretary of Defense
0:46.6	and Torture Defender Michael Murrell for CIA and the campaign they are mounting to block
0:52.0	Avril Haynes for Intelligence Chief.
0:54.8	We then turn to Economic Historian Robert Brenner, who takes a deeper look at the Republican
1:00.9	Party after Trump's efforts to overturn the election and the storming of the Capitol
1:05.9	Building on January 6th. While many posit a fracturing of the Republican Party post-Trump,
1:12.1	Brenner says that Trump and the Trumpistus define the party,
1:16.6	notwithstanding a small number of defections.
1:19.0	So with the Republicans and MAGA, and then we get Robert Brenner to look at what this means for the Democratic Party
1:26.2	after its stunning excess in the election in Georgia and giving it a huge opening to take advantage of the moment we face.
1:34.2	We'll get his take when our program returns in just a moment. This is Jack up in Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman and very glad to be back with you all as we look at this tumultuous week, a week that perhaps surprised everybody after four years of what we thought were the most tumultuous chaotic times.
2:02.0	And I'm really pleased to have both Marci Winnagratt and
2:05.0	Madeia Benjamin with me today and we're going to actually talk about the plans and
2:11.2	activities that they have for the Biden administration, but of course we'll make some comment on the activities of this past week.
2:19.0	It can't go without comment, but let me just introduce them.
2:23.4	Marcy Winnigrad has long been in Progressive Democrats of America,
2:28.1	and she served as the 2020 Democratic delegate
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