#1590 Red Caesar and Project 2025: A fascist fever dream being given a vaguely respectable coat of paint by the Claremont Institute and the Heritage Foundation paving the way for an unconstrained, lawless, authoritarian Republican president
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 24 October 2023
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Summary
Air Date 10/23/2023
The people who want to pull the country in directions that are only supported by a small minority of the population have to develop very intricate plans to have any hope of succeeding. This is the story of the latest plan to establish unchecked rule to implement unpopular policies supported only by the far right.
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SHOW NOTES
Donald Trump has ramped up his violent rhetoric in recent weeks. Meanwhile, a Fox host has urged the U.S. towards civil war and claimed that voting does not work.
Pat Buchanan was ahead of his time. He used the KKK’s David Duke to breed a new nativist religious nationalism, based on fear of liberalization. On this show, political science professor Joseph Lowndes sheds light on how the Republican Party got here
Emma hosts John S. Huntington, professor of history at Houston Community College, to discuss his recent book Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism.
Ch. 4: How Often Do YOU Think About the Roman Empire? - Wisecrack - Air Date 10-16-23
The real reason TikTok is crazy for ancient Rome If you’re even a little bit online, you know that the men love ancient Rome. This isn’t new: The civilization has loomed large in the Western imagination ever since its catastrophic collapse.
Ch. 5: The Conservative Plan to Take Over the Country Part 1 - Leeja Miller - Air Date 9-26-23
Project 2025 is the terrifying plan set out by conservatives to take over the government. But it's radical, and it doesn't align with what most Americans want. Which is why we have to make sure this plan never happens.
A Trump supporter just displayed exactly how stochastic terrorism works.
Ch. 7: The Conservative Plan to Take Over the Country Part 2 - Leeja Miller - Air Date 9-26-23
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Ch. 8: Think Tanks: How Fake Experts Shape the News - Tom Nicholas - Air Date 5-13-23
A video about how billionaire-funded right-wing “think tanks” such as the Heritage Foundation, Adam Smith Institute, Manhattan Institute, and Institute of Economic Affairs manipulate the news to spread their propaganda.
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 9: Final comments discussing the Red Caesar movement and our strange allies opposing it
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we shall take a look at the people who want to pull the country in directions that are only supported by a small minority of the population and therefore have to develop very intricate plans to have any hope of succeeding. |
| 0:19.7 | This is the story of the latest plan to establish unchecked rule to implement unpopular policies |
| 0:25.9 | supported only by the far right. Sources today include the readout, keeping democracy alive, |
| 0:32.4 | the majority report,, Wisecrack, |
| 0:35.0 | Ligia Miller, and the Tom Hartman Program with an additional Members Only clip |
| 0:39.0 | from Tom Nicholas. On Thursday, Fox's Greg Gutfield went on the air and said this. |
| 0:45.0 | We had a war and said this. |
| 0:50.0 | We had a war over slavery. We knew slavery was inhumane and immoral, but somehow |
| 0:58.4 | we couldn't solve slavery peacefully. It was an evil, but one side refused to acknowledge that it was evil |
| 1:05.7 | because it was too big of an admission for them to make. Doesn't that feel that way |
| 1:10.9 | now that this defiant refusal to reverse this decline argues against the |
| 1:16.8 | survival of a country. What does that leave you with? It leaves you with you need to |
| 1:21.2 | make war to bring peace because you have a side that cannot change because then that means an admission that their beliefs have been corrupt all the time. |
| 1:31.3 | So in a way, you have to force them to surrender. Or we could make love |
| 1:35.9 | not war. I tried that once. Oh we have an election. I had to go to a doctor. |
| 1:39.8 | Right. Election. Yeah. Elections don't work. We know that. We know they don't work. |
| 1:46.0 | Just stop for a second and think about what he just told millions of Americans, |
| 1:51.0 | that this country needs war to bring peace because you have a side that cannot change, |
| 1:56.5 | you have to force them to surrender. |
| 1:59.2 | And he couches little rant in the civil war, a war in which the people who could not change and whose beliefs were |
| 2:03.7 | corrupt the whole time, shot and killed US troops and declared war on the United States as well |
| 2:09.1 | as secession for the purposes of keeping millions of people in bondage. |
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