As a lifelong Democrat, it is painful for me to hear the truth about how Democrats stopped representing the worknig people of America, thus creating fertile ground for the rise of fascist-tending populists like Trump. It’s important to understand that Trump is a symptom, because unless the underlying conditions change, there will continue to be Trumps. The following conversation between Chris Hedges and Jimmy Dore — about the Cornell West candidacy — illuminates this problem about as well as anything I’ve heard in a long time.