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Within Reason

#109 David Pakman - The New Threat Donald Trump Poses to America

Within Reason

Alex J O'Connor

Religion, Morality, Ethics, Society & Culture, Cosmicskeptic, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

David Pakman is an American progressive political commentator and host of  @thedavidpakmanshow . Buy David's book, The Echo Machine here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Last year, Amazon was the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy.

0:07.0

Meaning all and more of our energy comes from wind farms like this one.

0:14.0

Guys, what happened to recording that the solar farms?

0:18.0

To learn more, visit about Amazon.com at UK forward slash sustainability.

0:29.8

David Pacman, welcome to the show.

0:31.9

Thanks for having me.

0:33.5

Why do the right keep winning?

0:37.1

Oof, that's a, there are many answers to that.

0:40.5

In the United States, there's a few overlapping layers that explain that.

0:47.3

Number one, I think their ideas are better summed up in tidy and pithy fashion, which we can get into.

0:56.6

Number two, at the congressional level, gerrymandering, the way that districts are drawn, has been helpful to the Republican

1:04.3

party, to the extent that the right goes through the Republican Party in the U.S., that's another

1:09.0

aspect. And then number three, there have been a number of

1:14.7

different sort of structural realities, including around how media is and has been funded and

1:23.1

sort of organized in the United States that has also benefited the political right. Now, this is just

1:30.3

like a 30,000 foot view, a 10,000 meter view, which we can, you know, dig into more in more

1:37.3

detail, but that's kind of the big picture, as I would put it, of the last 30 or 40 years.

1:43.2

One of the things 30 or 40 years.

1:49.2

One of the things that strikes me when reading a book like yours, the echo machine,

1:54.5

which I'll of course have a link to in the description, is that there is, you spend an entire chapter on this question.

1:55.7

You know, why is the right winning?

1:57.3

And if somebody is a conservative voter or a Republican or a MAGA lover and they read your

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