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🗓️ 18 April 2025
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Air Date 4/18/2025
Before the election, I heard interviews and statistics about Trump supporters responding to his stated desire to weaponize the government against his political enemies. Their response was that 1) they didn't want him to do that and 2) didn't think he would.
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: Free Mahmoud Khalil with Ben Wizner and Baher Azmy - At Liberty - Air Date 3-26-25
KP 3: Trump's Revenge - The Majority Report - Air Date 4-1-25
KP 6: Trumps Attacks on Law Firms, Lawyers, and the Law - Boom! Lawyered - Air Date 3-20-25
KP 7: Trump and the Courts w Samuel Moyn - Behind the News - Air Date 3-7-25
(00:52:02) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On how racism and anti-intellectualism are a self-inflicted injury to society
DEEPER DIVES
(00:59:09) SECTION A: COMPLYING ENTITIES
(01:46:29) SECTION B: GOVERNMENT WEAPONIZATION
(03:01:33) SECTION C: JUDGES AND LEGISLATORS
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0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast. |
0:07.3 | Before the election, I heard interviews and statistics about Trump supporters responding to his stated desire to weaponize the government against his political enemies. |
0:18.8 | Their response was that, one, they didn't want him to do that, and two, didn't think |
0:25.8 | he would. |
0:27.5 | Now that everything the anti-Trumpers warned about is coming true, I suggest against shaming |
0:33.2 | people for having been wrong. |
0:34.9 | That is not the way to build an inclusive coalition that will end up |
0:38.5 | including disillusion to Trump voters. Tell people that we were right, but not to make them |
0:44.6 | feel bad, but as a reminder for why we should be listened to now. For those looking for a quick |
0:51.8 | overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 50 minutes today includes at liberty, citations needed, the majority report, up first, on the media, boom, lawyered, and behind the news. |
1:05.4 | Then, in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in three sections. |
1:09.7 | Section A, comp compliant entities, followed |
1:12.6 | by Section B, Government Weaponization, and Section C, judges and legislatures. But first, we are |
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