The Trump Shooting and the Crisis of U.S. Capitalism
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump just survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally, irreversibly changing the state of U.S. politics. The incident produced images of a strong and defiant Trump, and it almost certainly produced a political climate more favorable for his re-election. Brian is joined by Eugene Puryear to consider how both elite parties will respond to growing political instability by further lurching to the right.
Eugene Puryear is an author and political organizer, and co-host of The Freedom Side LIVE, a live video show every Thursday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern on BreakThrough News.
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| 0:00.0 | An assassination attempt against Donald Trump over the weekend has changed the political equation in the United States. |
| 0:08.9 | We're heading towards November at a time when the U.S. empire is in decline and when the capitalist system is in crisis. |
| 0:16.6 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. Today we're talking with Eugene |
| 0:57.3 | per year. Eugene is an author. He's a political organizer. And he is the co-host of the Freedom Side Live, |
| 1:03.9 | a live video show every Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m. Eastern on Breakthrough News. Eugene, welcome back. Brian, thank you so much for having |
| 1:12.7 | me again. Well, in an instant, the political situation shifted once again inside the United |
| 1:19.5 | States with the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Already, Joe Biden insulated from reality, |
| 1:26.5 | apparently by a close and smaller group of advisors, |
| 1:30.2 | is insisting that only he can beat Donald Trump. |
| 1:33.3 | Well, quite clearly, Donald Trump was winning before the assassination attempt. |
| 1:37.7 | Now it seems to be even more conclusive that Donald Trump is definitely the frontrunner. |
| 1:44.0 | The RNC is underway. |
| 1:46.5 | There's some interesting politics there that I want to talk to you about. |
| 1:50.2 | But let's just talk about the politics of assassination. |
| 1:53.7 | You know, on November 22nd, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the president of the United States |
| 1:59.9 | at that time, was murdered in Dallas, Texas. |
| 2:03.8 | Five years later, his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, was also assassinated right after he won the |
| 2:09.9 | California primary. He was on his way to become the Democratic Party nominee. He would have |
| 2:15.9 | very likely beaten Richard Nixon. He was promising to end the |
| 2:19.4 | war in Vietnam, but he was dead. He was assassinated in June 1968. Of course, that came just two |
| 2:26.7 | months after the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We have other political assassinations in the |
| 2:32.5 | United States. Of course, the killing of Abraham Lincoln four days after the Confederate Army, Robert |
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