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"The Blue Road to Trump Hell": Norm Solomon on "How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy"

2025-12-31 News & Politics
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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised "autopsy" from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats' 2024 presidential campaign. While the Democratic Party's official postmortem assessment was pulled from public release earlier this month, RootsAction's "Democratic Autopsy" looks at how factors like "service to corporate power, hostility to the progressive wing of the party, out-of-control militarism [and] disconnection from the base of the working class" contributed to declining support for the party's platform and candidates. "If you don't examine real history, then you're in a cycle that repeats the same problems," says Norman Solomon, director of RootsAction, who joins Democracy Now! to discuss his organization's findings. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe

Top Comments (10)

@nsbd90now 2025-12-31

Yeah... Chris Hedges has been talking about this for years and years. Rarely see him being interviewed in any news source despite his astounding life of experience, education and integrity.

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@AlanWinterboy 2026-01-01

Thank you, Democracy Now!, for your service to America.

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@omavic9560 2025-12-31

Thank you Amy and team democracy now❤

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@Darkstarr-ud2go 2025-12-31

They all serve the same masters … they have always played the useful idiots … it was all a farce and all started in the 1970’s …

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@dArtagnan712 2026-01-03

Government of the money, for the money and by the money.

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@noname-JS 2025-12-31

THEY WIN WHETHER THEY WIN OR LOSE!!!!

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@lolo9553ify 2025-12-31

Thank you for featuring Mr. Solomon. Corporatism among DC democrats has weakened the party's support for the working class. Too many DC politicians - not all - are more devoted to their corporate donors than to democracy. That has helped pave the way for this autocracy, yes.

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@DemocracyNow 2025-12-31

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@Rippypoo 2025-12-31

Harris refused to break with our horrible foreign policy on Israel because Israel controls our government and 90% of our politicians. We are currently the United States of Israel. Disgusting.

34 2 replies
@susanogden6218 2026-01-02

The Democratic National committee is hooked on the corporate trough.

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