NEW: In a 2020 Zoom forum with climate activists, James Talarico spoke of “dismantling” capitalism, grouping it with White supremacy and climate change. In the same forum, he compared Texas’ oil industry to “cassette tapes,” saying it's "not gonna last.” ↧ In 2020, James Talarico said Texas oil was “not gonna last,” sp... Six years before becoming Texas Democrats’ US Senate nominee, James Talarico described capitalism as an “oppressive system” during a Sierra Club event, grouping it with White supremacy and climate change and saying ending the ways all three worked together was necessary to begin the process of “dismantling them.”