While Donald Trump assaults civil liberties and the social safety net, Democrats are lost. Capital’s continued dominance of both parties and Big Tech’s machinations in particular are key to understanding our political crisis, argues Thomas Ferguson.

Since its devastating loss to Donald Trump’s GOP last November, the Democratic Party has struggled to turn things around. Trump’s popularity has been flagging, but Democrats’ approval ratings seem to be far worse. The party is also beset by deep internal conflicts, well-illustrated by the case of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, who decisively won the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor in June on an economic populist platform but has been faced with indifference or hostility from much of the party establishment.

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