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Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of the Left

podcast. The Republican Party is making it sound like they're trying to

transform themselves into the Party of Working People. There's a mountain of evidence suggesting

that you shouldn't believe them, but there's also plenty of reason to sit up and take notice of the situation.

Sources providing our top takes in under 45 minutes today include Democracy Now,

deconstructed, parallax Views, the Majority Report, the Tom Hartman Program, and the

Real News Network.

Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more on three topics. Section A, the Teamster Speech and False Populism,

section B, pro-worker legislation,

and section C, J.D. Vance and the center right.

Tell us who J.D. Vance is and the significance of Donald Trump choosing him who would be the youngest

ever vice president if he were to win at the age of 39, the former Marine and venture capitalist.

Well, he's a very dangerous fake and his whole history from writing hill bileology to doing 180 degree pivot from being a critic of Trump to being a loyalist to Trump to pretending to be very favorable to

working Americans when in fact all of his votes have been the opposite suggests

both that he's a fake and he's an attractive fake he's personally

likable I hate to say that he's an intellectual. He knows how to engage issues. He knows things that Trump is completely

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