Can the Left recover?

The need to renew its historic commitment to justice for the poor of the world

     In the presidential and congressional elections of 2024, the people of the United States repudiated the political establishment, in part because of its alliance with the Left.  In the aftermath of its repudiation, many of the Left are now predicting that Donald Trump will do really bad things, a prediction that reinforces the notion that the Left does not understand Trump and the MAGA movement.  Moreover, the continued denunciation of Trump, even after the people have supported him, suggests that the Left is not capable of engaging in a self-criticism that would seek to discern the reasons for its repudiation, which is rooted in its own historic and contemporary limitations and defects.

     MAGA, founded by Trump, is an anti-establishment movement that has matured to formulate a common-sense program that rejects the policies of the two political parties of the last forty-five years.  The program includes: sensibly regulating and controlling immigration, and cracking down on illeg…