NEW YORK (GZERO MEDIA) - Trumpism will still have political space and gravity and many will occupy it, says American political scientist Ian Bremmer. Speaking after the violent storming of the Capitol by Mr Donald Trump's supporters on Jan 6, he says that the divisions in the US are getting worse and will keep becoming greater, as an equality of opportunity is not there for the masses. "Trump, as Steve Bannon once said, is a vessel, a broken vessel, a flawed vessel, but for something much deeper, which is a feeling that the system is rigged against the average American." Despite losing last year's Presidential elections and posing to be a threat to democracy, Mr Trump's influence over the voting base of the Republican Party will not go away easily, adds Mr Bremmer. "He'll have access to billions of dollars and mass media and have dozens of millions of direct followers that will continue to prepare to listen to him," he said. "...even though Joe Biden has the instinct to reach out across the aisle and across the divide in his own Democratic party, decades of a country and a political system that makes the
America’s new year resolution should have admitted that the left now represents the privileged. If 2020 did nothing else, it confirmed the class realignment of America’s left. There is simply no member of the country’s self-styled elite who is not a member of the left. Instead of representing the “little guy,” America’s working class, and small business owners, our left represses them. Leftists’ age-old rhetoric has been that they stand against the elite. Their professed aim is to wield the power of the people for the “the little guy.” 2020’s reality exposed exactly the opposite: America’s left is its self-styled elites and their real aim is just to wield power. It is impossible to recall a time when academia was not the left’s bastion. Even when conservatives dominated society at large, the left flourished here. The difference now is the left’s unprecedented monopoly. Originally, academic freedom gave the left access to campuses. Now under the left’s control, academic freedom has become an anachronism, with no place less tolerant of divergent views — the only true diversity — than campuses. Being a real radical on today’s college campus would mean being conservative. Establishment media has become the left’s off-campus campus. Here, it
MOSCOW (REUTERS) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is due to fly back to Russia on Sunday (Jan 17) for the first time since he was poisoned last summer, despite the authorities' stated desire to arrest him and potentially jail him for years. Mr Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin's most prominent domestic critics, announced his decision to return from Germany last Wednesday, saying he missed Moscow and was not interested in what he called new fabricated criminal cases against him. A day later, the Russian capital's prison service said it would do everything to arrest him once he returned, accusing him of flouting the terms of a suspended prison sentence for embezzlement, a 2014 case which he says was trumped up. Mr Navalny, who is hoping for success in parliamentary elections in September, faces potential trouble in three other criminal cases too, all of which he says are politically motivated. His return poses a conundrum for the Kremlin: jail him and risk protests and punitive Western action by turning him into a political martyr. Or do nothing and risk looking weak in the eyes of Kremlin hardliners. Mr Navalny, 44, is expected to fly from
