The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.

Part of the uprising of Latin America, particularly in the last 10 to 15 years, has been a reaction to [neoliberal regime], and they have thrown out a lot of these measures and moved in a different direction. In earlier years, the US would have overthrown the governments or, one way or another, curtailed them. Now, it can't do that.

Well, in fact if you look at the Trump voters, you take a look at their attitudes it's not all that different. In some respects they're similar. They're an older version of the Sanders people. So a lot of it is racist and you have that sort of thing, but if you look at their views on say health, education, and so on, it's kind of the same as Sanders.

You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

I think there are real possibilities of reaching out to many of the Trump voters, those who voted for Obama believing his rhetoric.

The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with mass incarceration, directed largely against black males.

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.