Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast. Elon Musk is leading the way for his class of tech brologarcs, anxious to take over the MAGA movement and shape it to their own ends of deregulation, tax cuts, and lucrative government contracts. The disappointment that is inevitable for the Maga populists

is coming even faster than expected.

For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 50 minutes

today includes The Readout, Democracy Now, the Muckrake Political Podcast, No Lie with Brian

Taylor Cohen, bad faith, straight white

American Jesus, and left anchor.

Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in four sections.

Section A, The Oligarchs, Section B, the Maga Fracture, Section C, Global Influence,

and Section D, Global Influence, and Section D organizing.

Back in the 1980s, Rush Limbaugh became a radio powerhouse by enthralling mainly white working

class men, truck drivers, cops, and other non-college-educated

blue-collar types who spent their workdays in their cars or other places where they could

tune in to AM radio for hours.

AM Radio Network saw the potential profit in this and syndicated his show to hundreds of rural

and small-town AM radio stations to pump the Lindau show, the Limbaugh show,

for hours a day. So Rush Hudson Limbaugh, the third of the prominent and affluent Limbaughs

of Girido, Missouri, could lean into his golden microphone and tell his audience of ditto heads,

as he called them, that real Americans like them were having their pockets

picked by the welfare queens, the brown immigrants and the feminazis. They were the ones making

white working class men's lives worse. Not the Reagan Revolution, which ended pensions,

gutted unions, and slashed away at Lyndon Johnson's great society programs. No, no. It's the

poor or so are the problem, not the rich.

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