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The Friends of Viktor Orbán

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Orbán has brought together a mind-boggling assortment of elites in the cause of ethno-nationalistic anti-liberalism—a cause, clearly, that can unite communists and capitalists, Jews and antisemites.

Cesar Falls

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
With the horror of the revelations of his sexual predations, an already tarnished icon collapses.

The Occupying Army Retreats

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Trump is plainly determined to have an alien force of louts and thugs occupy America’s cities. The announcement of ICE’s withdrawal from Minnesota marks a victory for people power.

The Democratic Base Is Social Democratic

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
It took profound transformation of Americans’ social and economic lives by deregulated and financialized capitalism to push Democrats left. It’s time that the media reconsider what constitutes the party’s new mainstream.

Will the Court Rule for Trump or for Wall Street?

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
As the Supreme Court now considers whether Trump can take over the Federal Reserve, we lose either way. In what may be its most difficult challenge: To whom does it owe its ultimate submission and greatest obeisance: Donald Trump, or Wall Street?