The Balancing Act That the Left Has to Engage In

left domestically has to engage in a balancing act, says Julian Zelizer. You have to present a credible alternative, but then high light how the approach of the security state systematically produces dileterious outcomes, he adds. He argues that if you're gong to go after russian oligarchs, again, that is an important global project - closing tax havens, tacking oligarchs everywhere rather than just exclusively Russian oligarchs. And all of that has to be tied to a theory of solidarity that's built around not just humanitarian assistance, necessary humanitarian assistance in ukraine, and also a global humanitarian assistant given the fact that seven billion people around the world are facing as in partly as a