Jeff Deist: Trump Is Just a Speed Bump for the Left

03/15/2017Mises Institute

Jeff Deist is featured on RT's CrossTalk with Peter Lavelle.

Has the left been dealt a blow by Brexit and the Trump election, or are we witnessing just a slight bump in the road for the "progressive" ideological program that's not going away? Unlike what happened in Eastern Europe in the wake of the Soviet collapse, the left in the West never lost faith in the leftist program of the past century.

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