Trump: Losing in Iran, Losing on Tariffs, Losing Public Opinion
Richard Wolff on The Socialist Program
Richard Wolff joins Brian Becker on The Socialist Program to look at mounting military and economic pressure on the United States. The war with Iran drives up costs in both lives and spending, while tariffs fall apart after a Supreme Court ruling and fail to generate the expected revenue. Expanding military budgets and ongoing conflicts deepen deficits and national debt, putting pressure on programs like Social Security. Public support weakens as these strains build, reflecting broader limits in US policy at home and abroad.
This might be a stupid queztion but why dont the other states around the straight of Hormuz build a pipeline to circumnavigate it?
Fully, 36% of this country is still right there with him and nothing except perhaps, “till death do us part”, is going to change that. The only hope we have depends on accepting the old reality that VOTING MATTERS. IT’s so painfully obvious that the country belongs to those who show up.