‘Big deal’, socialists say, even if whoever replaces him has a better chance of defeating Trump in the carnivalesque event called an election.
Will its result make any difference? Of course not, since both Democrats and Republicans are parties of the status quo – capitalism, a system in which 712 million people throughout the world suffer from extreme poverty, and in the US the three wealthiest people have a higher net worth than the bottom half of society.
Instead of supporting parties whose purpose is to perpetuate capitalism, workers in the US and elsewhere need to organise to establish a truly democratic society of free access to all goods and services, based on production for need not profit – socialism.