Big Picture Interview: Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Capitalism’s Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown/Democracy At Work. White supremacy reared it’s ugly head last weekend in Charlottesville – Virginia – and one brave American ended up dead. Thankfully – we are not living in Nazi Germany — not yet, at least — but the threat that white supremacy and fascism pose to our democracy is real — especially as Reaganomics continues to tear apart what remains of our middle class.