The morning after: A Marxist analysis of the Trump victory

The U.S. is entering a period of intensified class struggle, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer says it's too early to draw any hard and fast conclusions, but there are a few things we can say with a reasonable degree of confidence.

Trump and the MAGA faction of the Republican Party are the vehicle for the country’s most right-wing capitalists, Zelizer writes.

He says Trump will enter the White House in January with a fully worked out billionaires’ agenda Project 2025 which targets the working class and unions.

Julian Zelizer : As of press time, Trump is on track to be about two million votes below his losing total in the last election.

He says the evidence for a massive swing to the right on the part of voters starts to look thin.

We need to find out why, Zelizer says, under neoliberal capitalism, the system is pulling us apart from one another.

Zelizer asks: What are material conditions of life that make people susceptible to this kind of messaging?.

Frida Ghitis: Fascism wins by appealing to real demands, not only hatred and fear.

She says people of all political persuasions are tired of war and war are a factor in this election.