
Progressive stand-up comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore, host of The Jimmy Dore Show, calls Democrats the party of “Goldman Sachs and Raytheon” and jokes that if it was 1860, “Democrats would be bragging about their first transgendered slave owner.” A longtime critic of neoliberalism, a supporter of Bernie Sanders in 2016, and an astute critic of how American Globalist Empire uses identity politics to divert attention away from economic issues, Dore claims that “The idea that we have progressives inside the Democratic Party [is] actually more deleterious to the progressive movement … because it gives people the false impression that there’s somebody in government fighting for you, that there’s one of the parties that are kind of on your side and they aren’t.” Read more here and watch here.