Author: Tony Prettyman

During the campaign, Donald Trump told his supporters that he would protect Social Security. The fact that he’s packing his transition team with corporate hacks who want to privatize the system proves that the man is incapable of telling the truth. The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription of the above video: Donald Trump promised his supporters during the campaign that he is going to protect Social Security. When you look at the demographics, a lot of Trump voters happen to be on Social Security. He understood you had to play that card in order to win...

The Monday-morning quarterbacking of the Democratic Party is still going strong, but the Party could have easily pulled off a massive upset in the 2016 election if they simply had learned from their past mistakes. It really isn’t that hard to pinpoint why they lost in 2016. The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription of the above video: Democrats, in general, still trying to figure out exactly where Hillary Clinton went wrong, who she did and did not reach out to. Were the scandals that were largely exaggerated by the media, did those play a huge role...

The labor movement and the fight for living wages had been gaining a lot of momentum in the US. But the election of Trump signifies an end to those fights, as Trump has a proven track record of being anti-worker. The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription of the above video: Donald Trump supporters are still out there telling us his election had absolutely nothing to do with racism, it’s all middle class anger in America but he’s going to fix it. He is the populist in this election. That claim today is just as untrue as...