The US Oligarchy Can Be Defeated – But Not By The Democrats [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Brian Becker and Layan Fuleihan break down Trump’s doubling down on deportations – including potential plans to deport U.S. citizens, Rubio’s signal of a possible pivot away from the war in Ukraine, new developments in the Gaza genocide, and how socialists should relate to the new wave of the anti-Trump movement.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:04.0 | This is John Prysner, a producer of this show. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a preview of a patrons-only episode. |
| 0:10.0 | Subscribe at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to hear the full episode, |
| 0:16.0 | get access to all our patrons-only content, including live Q&A seminars with Brian Becker, and help |
| 0:22.4 | keep this show on the air. |
| 0:27.1 | Donald Trump wants to deport U.S. citizens to foreign prisons without due process. |
| 0:33.5 | His team says that maybe there won't be peace in Ukraine after all, and more protests against |
| 0:39.8 | the Trump administration are scheduled for Saturday, April 19th. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm Leanne Seema Fullahan here with Brian Becker. |
| 0:47.1 | This is in the news, a segment of the socialist program, a patrons-only show. |
| 0:52.6 | Brian, the Democratic Party for the longest time has been instructing all of their base, |
| 0:58.2 | instructing the party, really to do nothing, that it's their strategy to sit back and wait |
| 1:03.5 | out the Trump administration. |
| 1:05.1 | We've talked about this on the show. |
| 1:06.9 | We've talked about it a lot in different programs of the Socialist Program. |
| 1:10.7 | We all know that that really |
| 1:12.9 | does nothing but play into the Trump administration's goals. A quelled movement, a population that's just |
| 1:18.7 | sitting back and watching the Trump administration do whatever they want, that would really be |
| 1:23.0 | amazing for the Trump administration. It would clear the way for his major restructuring of the policies of the U.S. government. |
| 1:29.9 | But, Ryan, in recent weeks, we've been seeing signs that people are actually not okay with just waiting it out. |
| 1:36.1 | There's been, on April 5, there were major protests across the country under the banner of hands-off. |
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