Cornel West: ‘Brother Trump Reduces the Whole World in Transaction, Manipulation, and Domination, So Was Alexander the Great’

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WEST: “We live in such a bleak moment. Today‘s Bloomsday. You know, June 16th, 1904, the great novel by James Joyce, 'Ulysses,' where he has Stevens say, 'History is a nightmare from which I‘m trying to awake.' And many of us resonate with that formulation. That‘s 1922. Here we are, 2025. Meaning what? That we know brother Trump reduces the whole world to transaction, manipulation and domination. So was Alexander the Great. We‘re not talking about Jesus. We‘re not talking about Socrates. We‘re not talking about Dorothy Day or Martin Luther King jr.. In such a moment, if you don‘t have high quality leadership with a moral compass, then whatever you come up with is going to be unprincipled.”