US tripartite landscape: Democrats, Trumpians, democratic socialists

01:13:13 — US tripartite landscape: Democrats / Trumpians / democratic socialists

Žižek maps the coming American contest as three-sided rather than two. The Republican Party is, for him, already absorbed into the Trumpian formation; the remaining Democrats are essentially the old center; the third force is the democratic-socialist current, which this episode has already associated with Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani. The strategic question — whether that third force builds its own party or continues to operate inside the Democratic shell — is the decisive tactical question for the next cycle; he reads Mamdani’s choice to run within the party as correct under current conditions.