Krystal Ball

Nov 7, 2024 | znetwork.org | Krystal Ball

Intro from Ryan Grim:Here’s a warning and an admonition written in January 2019 by author and organizer Jonathan Smucker: “If the Dem Party establishment succeeds in beating down the fresh leadership and bold vision that’s stepping up, it will effectively enable the continued rise of authoritarianism. But they will not wake up and suddenly grasp this. It’s on us to outmaneuver them and win.”If you’ve been alive since then, you know that whoever the “us” was did not, in fact, outmaneuver them.

Nov 7, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Philip Farruggio |Ellen Isaacs |Krystal Ball

It takes some skill to make Donald J. Trump look good. Two Democrats have succeeded in doing so: Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Kamala Harris in 2024. The conceit of both presidential campaigns, and the belief that attacking a staggeringly grotesque moral character for being such, was laughable.

Nov 7, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Philip Farruggio |Ellen Isaacs |Krystal Ball |Nilofar Suhrawardy

They attribute the famous quote ‘ Let them eat cake’ to Marie Antoinette, Queen Consort of King Louis XIV of France. Apparently, she was told that the peasants did not have enough bread to eat. Her retort Let them eat cake, famous for all the Super Rich throughout history ( and right smack dab into our present USA), shows the utter arrogance, indifference and lack of empathy for most of our low and middle income working stiffs.

Nov 7, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Ellen Isaacs |Karyn Pomerantz |Philip Farruggio |Krystal Ball

by Ellen Isaacs and Karyn PomerantzI must admit that we were surprised at the outcome of the election. We thought that Trump’s overt racism against so many groups and his disparagement of women would be enough for him to at least lose the popular vote. But that was wrong. Whatever offense he may have caused was apparently trumped by higher prices for rent, food, insurance, mortgages and other necessities. And the longstanding tradition of racism in US society.

Nov 7, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Krystal Ball |Nilofar Suhrawardy |Phil Pasquini |George Capaccio

There are a million surface-level reasons for Kamala Harris’s loss and systematic underperformance in pretty much every county and among nearly every demographic group. She is part of a deeply unpopular administration. Voters believe the economy is bad and that the country is on the wrong track. She is a woman and we still have some work to do as a nation to overcome long-held biases.