Republican presidential nominee, now president-elect Donald Trump denies recent sexual assault allegations at a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on October 15, 2016.(Reuters / Jonathan Ernst)
Gary Younge says Trump’s victory shows the weakness of the Republican Party, not its strength—and argues that progressives must avoid despair if they are to channel their anger into an effective resistance.
Start Making Sense is hosted by Jon Wiener and co-produced by the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Plus: Obamacare has changed America, and that makes it hard for the Republicans to simply repeal it. David Dayen explains.
And Joy Reid of MSNBC talks about Obama’s rhetoric on race and what it suggests for the coming fight against Trump and white nationalism. Her new book is We Are The Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama.
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