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This week Eric welcomes back to the show CounterPunch Editor Jeffrey St. Clair to discuss his new book <a href=”https://www.counterpunch.org/product/bernie-the-sandernistas/”>Bernie and the Sandernistas: Field Notes From a Failed Revolution</a>, and provide a retrospective view of the movement and its adherents. Eric and Jeff touch on Bernie’s failings as a leader and his slavish devotion to the Democratic Party despite its being moribund and utterly worthless. The conversation also touches on the danger of Trump and the trumpen proletariat that will not take kindly to the inevitable betrayals Trump has in store, as well as the importance of using Trump as an opportunity to rebuild our social justice movements after their dormancy under Obama. Jeff also explains how he manages to simultaneously be a shill for Putin and a rabid anti-Putin Russophobe. Get your doublethinking caps on for this episode of CounterPunch Radio!
Music: Constantines – “Young Lions”
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