Katrina vanden Heuvel: DEFENDING DEMOCRACY AGAINST DONALD TRUMP

RAIMUND LÖW IN CONVERSATION WITH KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL





DEFENDING DEMOCRACY AGAINST DONALD TRUMP


 


The inauguration of Donald Trump as 47th president of the United
States signifies a major setback for democratic forces and the
left. A convicted felon in the White House in an alliance with a
significant number of tech billionaires will try to shape a new
future for American society. The MAGA Make America Great Again
movement provides the new leaders with a mass base in the country
that no other politician of the far right has ever had. But civil
society is strong, despite the fact, that America makes a turn to
the right. In cities and states Democrats promise resistance
against human rights violations instigated from Washington.
How strong are the safeguards of the American society against
authoritarian temptations? How can resistance against the Trump
administration be built? What does the turn of the United States
to the far right mean for the world? These are some of the
questions we will discuss with the American journalist Katrina
vanden Heuvel.





Raimund Löw, Journalist, author, and historian, he is the head of
Falter Radio. Previously, he had been reporting for ORF as a
foreign correspondent since the 1980s, covering locations such as
Moscow, Brussels, Washington, and Beijing.





Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director and publisher of The
Nation (served as editor of the magazine from 1995 to 2019) and
one of the most prominent voices of the American Left. She has
written several books, writes in the New York Times, the
Washington Post and the Guardian and frequently appears on CNN,
ABC and Democracy Now.