Jacobin Radio: Midterm Landslide w/ Robert Brenner

We've seen two elections, nine days apart, in the largest democracies of the Americas. In both, the voters delivered a verdict against the far right.

Suzi talks to Robert Brenner and Alan Minsky to get their take on the Democrats’ midterm landslide. For Brenner it was a repudiation of MAGA more than an endorsement of a party that “has managed to represent nothing for a long, long time,” and the real question now is organization. Minsky, of Progressive Democrats of America, calls the claim that moderates carried the day “nonsense.” Then Brazilian economist Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos explains why Lula trailed in the first round, and how fear of Flávio Bolsonaro’s cuts brought the poorest voters back.

Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman features conversations with leading thinkers and activists, with a focus on labor, the economy, and protest movements.