In his Dec. 14 column, Joe Gannon seems to be exhorting supporters of Sanders and Warren, on the basis of the results of the recent British election, to set aside their objections to corporatist Democratic candidates, and join with them in defeating Trump.
But the lesson that he draws from those results misses at least one important fact – that Johnson is a staunch defender of the British version of a single-payer health system, their NHS. So is Gannon recommending that Warren, Sanders, and their supporters drop their single-payer advocacy, and settle for market-based solutions to health coverage?
On a different interpretation of those results, Johnson, like Trump in the U.S., has been exploiting the domestic failures of global capitalism. On that basis, defeating Trump requires forthrightly addressing, and offering alternative solutions to, those failures, not uniting behind the global capitalists who have bred them.
Don Schneier
Northampton