Bryan Palmer on Donald Trump

brilliant!

conclusion:
 . . .  "This is all very bad news. It stampedes what is left of the left into the arms of the mainstream Democratic Party. Sadly, however, while the continuity of the American capitalist enterprise under Biden and Harris promises some immediate relief from this nightmare of Trumpism, it postpones Armageddon rather than reverses our march toward it. Under the barely distinguishable banner of Build America Back Better, Biden-Harris offer, at best, a mildly social democratic alternative to Trump’s Make America Great Again, as toothless in its opposition as it is tepid in its political incapacity to boil the contemporary pot of class relations. To be sure, the Biden-Harris oratory of inclusion champions change. The virtues of trade unionism are extolled, albeit in circumstances where the labour movement has been largely neutered. A commitment to racial healing and social justice fairness is proclaimed, but the economic supports needed to actually implement this good intention are both only vaguely alluded to and unlikely to be realized. The plague of our time, COVID-19, will undoubtedly be addressed with more science and less hydroxychloroquine hype; there will be masks and there will be social distancing. But without a national healthcare program of the kind Bernie Sanders demanded, and which Biden-Harris refuse, how can any pandemic be fought to a standstill?

"Trump’s ultimate farce – in decrying Biden-Harris a dangerous socialism – may well prove tragic in its own right. With substantive left alternatives abandoned in the rush to derail Trump’s impending train wreck, the course leading to barbarism, for all of the Biden-Harris claim that they will build better, is not going to be turned back. A nicer, more humane, but still exploitative, crisis-ridden, capitalism, around which many leftists are apparently now rallying, can never, in any final analysis, be the answer."
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