Gas, Groceries and Gaza: A Post-Election interview with Arun Gupta

No Borders Media speaks with journalist Arun Gupta on the defeat of the Democrats in the 2024 US election.

On this episode of No Borders Media, we continue our interviews and analysis in the aftermath of the 2024 US Presidential Election. On today’s show, we speak with New York City-based investigative journalist Arun Gupta. Arun has contributed to various mainstream and progressive publications, including The Nation and Jacobin.

Arun has written several analytical articles prior and after the election. He was inside Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York City in the final weeks of the election, and covered the pro-Palestine protests outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago back in August. He’s provided a scathing analysis of the Democratic campaign. In his words: “Harris was so committed to American Empire she was willing to lose the election.”

In this interview, Arun provides analysis of Gas, Groceries and Gaza, and the other factors at play in the recent election, especially the direct and indirect impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Biden/Harris response. He gives an insider view of the Trump MSG rally, the post-truth, post-fact, conspiratorial world of Trump’s multicultural MAGA supporters.

Arun explains the concept of “discounting racism” from Obama to Trump, and looks at the possibility of social movements to organize under both Democrat and Republican presidencies in the past three decades. Importantly, he grounds his insights in the inescapable centrality of the ongoing genocide in Gaza perpetrated by Israel. As he puts in, genocide is the end goal of fascism, and that is exactly was has happened in the past year, with the active complicity and involvement of the Biden/Harris administration.

Background:

• Arun Gupta on Substack: substack.com/@arunnews
  Triumph of the Swill (November 1, 2024): arunnews.substack.com/p/triumph-of-the-swill
• Gas, Groceries, and Gaza is the reason Harris Lost, But Not for the Reasons You Think (November 5, 2024: arunindypendent.substack.com/p/gas-groc…the-reason
• No Borders Media (From August 2018): A Discussion on Anti-Trump Resistance, with Arun Gupta (New York City Investigative Journalist): Nobordersmedia – Arungupta

Show Notes:
Interview recorded on November 12, 2024
Interview uploaded to soundcloud on November 14, 2024
Produced by Jaggi Singh, for No Borders Media

Photo by Nahrizul Kadri on Unsplash