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JONATHAN TURLEY: Talarico brings a touch of Trotsky to the Texas Senate race - Texas Democratic Senate nominee linked capitalism with White supremacy
Fox News ^ | 4 Sep, 2026 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 09/04/2026 7:12:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Senate Democratic nominee James Talarico appears ready to bring a touch of Trotsky to Texas. In a video from a climate forum, Talarico is shown declaring capitalism an "oppressive system" linked with White supremacy and saying that it must be "dismantled" to achieve a better world. It is reminiscent of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, who denounced the "fundamental evil of the capitalist system" and called on citizens to free themselves from its oppression. The Democratic Socialists of America and radical sites have long called "to dismantle the capitalist state."

As a state representative, Talarico addressed the 2020 climate conference by the Austin chapter of the Sierra Club with other Texas House candidates. However, it was Talarico who roused the crowd with an attack on capitalism:

"I’m so thankful that you asked this question and also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and White supremacy and capitalism in our country ... And I think only ending the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we gonna be able to begin the process of dismantling them."

Talarico added criticism of Texas’s oil and gas industry, which he mocked as a dying industry "like being the leader in cassette tapes in the 1980s." He predicted with obvious satisfaction, "That industry is not gonna last."

Ironically, given his earlier promise of running a meatless, vegan campaign, opposing both beef and energy markets in Texas could well achieve the dismantling of the economy by default in Texas.

Talarico's views closely parallel socialist and communist talking points online. The Democratic Socialists of America has challenged people to "imagine the end of capitalism." Those words in The Democratic Socialists of America manifesto offer Americans a world without landlords, debt, mandatory work hours, and "food, education, energy, medicine,

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: communists; dsa; leftism; leftwingnuts; nutjobs; socialists; talarico; veganism

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1 posted on 09/04/2026 7:12:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

If Talarico destroys the free market, where is he going to find angels to run his socialist system without oppression and exploitation?


2 posted on 09/04/2026 7:13:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

More like Jim Jones, all that’s missing is the Kool-Aid.


3 posted on 09/04/2026 7:13:38 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MtnClimber

Trotsky was much better as a communist than Stalin ever was, which is why Trots ended up dead and Stalin ruled the Soviet Union—Stalin cared more about Stalin than he ever did about communism.


4 posted on 09/04/2026 7:17:01 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin


General: And now, Comrades, the greatest moment of the day, the moment when I ask you to welcome the return of one of Russia's greatest heroes, creator of the Red Army, Lenin's greatest friend, Lev Davidovich Trotsky!

Gulliver: Comrades. Bolsheviks. Friends of the Revolution. I have returned. The bloodstained shadow of Stalinist repression is past. I bring you new light of Permanent Revolution.

Comrades, I may once have been ousted from power, I may have been expelled from the party in 1927, I may have been deported in 1929 but (sings) I'm just an old-fashioned girl, with an old-fashioned mind.

Comrades, I don't want to destroy in order to build, I don't want a state founded on hate and division (sings) I want an old-fashioned house with an old-fashioned fence, and an old-fashioned millionaire.

General So! You have duped us. You shall pay for this. Guards, seize him.

General Shall I seize him too?

Senior General No, I think we'll have to keep him, he's going down well.

General He's more fun than he used to be.

Senior General He's loosened up a lot. This is an old Lenin number.
5 posted on 09/04/2026 7:22:08 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: chajin

Trotsky was much better as a communist than Stalin ever was, which is why Trots ended up dead


Only good thing Koba ever did. Trotsky would have been even worse.


6 posted on 09/04/2026 7:25:57 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MtnClimber

A complete nut, yet almost all registered Democrats will vote for him.


7 posted on 09/04/2026 7:29:54 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven)
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To: dfwgator

Yes Trotsky was much more a true believer then Koba!


8 posted on 09/04/2026 7:34:01 AM PDT by Reily
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To: dfwgator

This Stalin is filthy business

Could be worse

How?

We could have had Trotsky


9 posted on 09/04/2026 7:40:09 AM PDT by xp38 (It can always be worse)
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Stalin was more like a Czar than a Communist. His hero was Ivan The Terrible.


10 posted on 09/04/2026 7:41:51 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: xp38

If Trotsky were in power, Germany would have gone Bolshevik, instead of Nazi.

Stalin didn’t want Communism to take hold in Germany, unless he had complete control over it. So he had most of the German Communists killed, and even gave Hitler the info so he could take care of them.


11 posted on 09/04/2026 7:44:03 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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Stalin was a sociopath. It appears all communists/fascists/NAZIs who come to power are sociopaths.

They do not care how many people they have to kill to stay in power.

The whole point of communism is “any means” which means, in effect, no morality. Any action is allowed if it benefits “the party” which, in practice means “benefits me”.


12 posted on 09/04/2026 7:49:17 AM PDT by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: MtnClimber

Take everything Talarico and his supporters have. Redistribute their supremisism to those more needy.


13 posted on 09/04/2026 7:58:36 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

Do the Republicans have the sense to make sure Texas voters are familiar with all the crazy and dangerous things Talarico has said? The media won’t publicize them.


14 posted on 09/04/2026 8:23:20 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: MtnClimber

Capitalism is for people who don’t mind working for their own wellbeing. Socialism/Communism is for people who want to survive off of the fruits of other people’s labor and have no incentive to do better, unless of course one is in the communistic ruling class.


15 posted on 09/04/2026 8:29:42 AM PDT by drypowder
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I surmise that Mssr. Tallywhacker has never been to an urban barber shop. All the barber shops in America aren’t ‘white supremacy” businesses. Many are owned by minorities.
Is not a barber shop a definite example of a small business, which is the epitomy of capitalism?


16 posted on 09/04/2026 9:20:52 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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I surmise that Mssr. Tallywhacker has never been to an urban barber shop. All the barber shops in America aren’t ‘white supremacy” businesses. Many are owned by minorities.

"You better not never let Jesse Jackson hear you talking like that."



"Man, F___ JESSE JACKSON!"
17 posted on 09/04/2026 9:25:01 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MtnClimber

Talarico wants to destroy the Texas oil/gas industry and the Texas economy.


18 posted on 09/04/2026 9:35:32 AM PDT by DFG
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To: MtnClimber

This is clearly labeled as opinion but FR does not allow me to add topic “Editorial.” The difference is that it will not appear in the sidebar.


19 posted on 09/04/2026 9:48:28 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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This was posted in “General Chat” so it will not be in a sidebar. Editorial posts are in News and Activism.


20 posted on 09/04/2026 10:05:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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