A Term Like Capitalism Is Incredibly Slippery,

When Nike Says, Just Do It, That's A Message Of Empowerment. Why Aren't The Rest Of Us Speaking To Young People In A Voice Of Inspiration?

It Is Eminently Possible To Have A Market-based Economy That Requires No Such Brutality And Demands No Such Ideological Purity. A Free Market In Consumer Products Can Coexist With Free Public Health Care, With Public Schools, With A Large Segment Of The Economy -- Like A National Oil Company -- Held In State Hands. It's Equally Possible To Require Corporations To Pay Decent Wages, To Respect The Right Of Workers To Form Unions, And For Governments To Tax And Redistribute Wealth So That The Sharp Inequalities That Mark The Corporatist State Are Reduced. Markets Need Not Be Fundamentalist.

A Lot Of People Voted For Trump Because Of The Promises He Made Around Jobs. And So It's A Failed Political Strategy If The Goal Actually Is To Get Trump Impeached. Trump's Not Going To Get Impeached If He's Still Useful To The Republican Party, And The Only Thing That Makes Him Not Useful To The Republican Party Is If His Base Turns On Him. And That's Not Going To Happen Over Russia. That's Going To Happen Over Economic Betrayal. But That's Not Going To Happen If No One Knows That It's Happening.

You Actually Cannot Sell The Idea Of Freedom, Democracy, Diversity, As If It Were A Brand Attribute And Not Reality -- Not At The Same Time As You're Bombing People, You Can't.

I Think This Has Been A Class War Waged By The Rich Against The Poor, And I Think That They Won. And I Think The Poor Are Fighting Back.