Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast.

Now, there is no denying that things are about to get bad.

Trump and Company have had years to prepare for their next turn in office, but those preparing

to resist also have the benefit of past experience, resulting in a response to Trumpism that

looks very different this time around. For those looking for a quick overview, the sources

providing our top takes in about 50 minutes today includes citations needed, boom,

Lawyard, Democracy Now, the Majority Report, the Daily Blast, the Impact Report, and the Rachel Maddo Show.

Then in the additional deeper dives half, there will be more in three sections.

Section A, Immigration, Intimidation, Section B, Bending the Knee, and Section C, Resistance.

Thank you. and Section C. Resistance. Yeah, well, Gaza just explodes the whole liberal resistance myth in many ways,

and it has baleful effects enforcing basically decent people wind up supporting, you know, actions like

the expansion of the military industrial complex and uncritical support for proxy wars.

I mean, you know, basically, as you said, it started in 2016 as a reaction to Trump.

You know, some of it's understandable. You know, people had a reaction to Trump. You know, some of it's understandable.

You know, people had a reaction to Trump.

Trump does seem to be outside of expected decorum and protocols.

And so there was this natural tendency to cast him as outside the mainstream.

But the number of scholars and pundits who position themselves as

intellectuals immediately jumped on this bandwagon of positioning Trump as some kind of authoritarian

or a fascist or compromised by ties with Putin and Russia. I mean, there's so many iterations of this argument, and, you know, some of them may have some basis in fact, and certainly Trump is an authoritarian, is no doubt about that.

But what it does by talking about it in a certain way is that it obscures and denies the fact that everything that

they say Trump is has deep roots in U.S. history and culture and politics. And you don't have

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