Henry Giroux joins Dick Price and Sharon Kyle of the LA Progressive to discuss the need for a radical democracy. He brings up important questions followed by even more important answers. Giroux says, “Disposable populations are no longer hidden in the shadows or relegated to the margins. They have been thrust into the harsh spotlight of a militarized spectacle, orchestrated by Trump’s Christian white supremacist nationalist regime. The faces of the undocumented, people of color, and those labeled as “gang members” are now paraded across a media landscape that eagerly captures their arrests, handcuffs, and deportations to brutal prisons. As the violence of this regime expands, it no longer confines itself to domestic borders. Its reach now stretches to women, children, and the elderly—both within the United States and abroad. This is starkly evident in the genocidal war against Palestinians, where thousands of children in Gaza are killed, their lives deemed expendable. What we are witnessing is a war on democracy itself—one that has come home. It is no longer concealed behind the terrorizing war on immigration and its expanded politics of disposability—reinforced with the racist language of invasions, poisoning of the blood of Americans, and charges of criminality. The same violence that targets the most vulnerable at home now extends its reach abroad, exposing the brutal, interconnected systems of oppression for the world to see.”

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