Virus. Welcome to the show in the last few minutes u. S. President donald trump has left the hospital where he was being treated at for 19 was seen walking out of the Walter Reed Medical Center in maryland where hes been treated since friday and was driven into a waiting helicopter for the short flight of back to the white house the president had earlier tweeted that hell be quote back on the campaign trail soon. Well straight to washington then and our correspondent Stephanie Simons who is standing by for us just on a before leaving hospital a trumpet tweeted dont be afraid of cove ed dont let it dominate your life but this is a disease that has killed over 210000 people in the u. S. And impacted countless others from where you are how exactly is the virus affecting day to day life. From where i am every day between 800 or 700000 americans die from where i am thousands are out of work a 1000000 out of work 60000 people lost work just in the other few days 34 days ago airlines are shut
States. Benjamin i noticed that there may have been a flurry of books on socialism. This is price because socialism has come into the american mainstream for the first time in our countrys history. There have been socialist candidates in the past predict Norman Thomas but they were never in the mainstream for now, infected a time when many of the socialisms had collapsed at the end of the 20th century suddenly its back in his back with a vengeance. So my surprise theres a lot of books that try to take stock of it. By and large its going to be the history, the idea the socialism has never worked before. Certainly not for lack of being tried it was tried and really the majority of the world. The largest countries in the world, russia, china, india. Oh one go into the socialist direction. So is that it didnt work before so its not going to work now. History kind of argument. But the problem with that argument is the socialist left result a lot of people dont know the history so it doesnt
Lot of these books have been published about socialism in response to what has changed over the last five years and they all have a little bit of a different take on it and emphasize different points so my obvious question is, why the United States and socialism and why did you write this book . Guest i noticed that there have been a flurry of books on socialism and that is a surprise because socialism has come into the american mainstream for the first time in our countrys history and there have been socialist candidates in the past, eugene debs, Norman Thomas but they were never in the mainstream and but now in fact at a time when many of us thought socialism had collapsed at the end of the 20th century, suddenly in the 21st century it is back and back with a vengeance. I am not surprised that there are books that try to take stock of this. The unifying theme throughout these books and i think by and large it will be history, its the idea that socialism has never worked before and ce
Is what im really interested here, is why the United States of socialism right a jew write this book . Guest i noticed that there has been a flurry of books on socialism that is no surprise. Because socialism has come into the american mainstream for the first time in our countrys history. There have been socialist candidates in the past, norman thomas, they were never in the mainstream. But now, in fact it is time and many of us had thought socialism collapsed at the end of the 20th century, suddenly in the 21st centuries back and back with a vengeance. So im not surprised there are a lot of books that are trying to take stock of this. The unifying theme throughout these books, and by and large it is in the field of history. Its the idea that socialism has never worked before. Certainly not for lack of being tried. It was tried really the majority of the world. The largest countries in the world, russia, china, india, all swung in the socialist directio direction. So the issue is that