I joined The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil on her show Red Lines for a conversation about the impeachment soap opera that Democrats subjected us to last week despite knowing they wouldn’t have the votes. Meanwhile, no help has arrived for Americans struggling through a pandemic depression.
Rania Khalek
Dispatches from the Underclass
Rania,
First I should say I have enormous respect for you as a journalist, commentator and leftist thinker. Same for Grayzone, Chris Hedges,, Greenwald et al. But I am really frustrated and upset with all of you for parroting the false narrative that the DC mob’s storming the Capital Bldg with insurrectionist intent was due to some unconscious economic angst. The evidence says otherwise. Consider the Atlantic article that investigated the mob’s background and of the first 150 arrested 40% were business owners or with white collar jobs. There were no Occupy Wall Street banners or Bernie Bros there just Confederate flags, MAGA hats and Qanon conspiracy fanatics. And no economic rhetoric just Stop the Steal and kill Pelosi and AOC. If Brazil’s Bolsonaro loses the next election and sends a fascist mob to overthrow the National Assembly and kill the leaders, do you think they would just go back to business ? (and Congress was conducting other business in typical dysfunctional manner) Trump’s America First white nationalism is a threat to POC and the Left. His last word’s before exiting the White House were that “we’ll be back”. I would hope you and the other premier leftist journalists would take that threat more seriously.