#1717 Monthly-Ish Mix: Wealth Concentration, Knowledge Suppression, and Identity Exploitation: The Systems of Control of the Authoritarian Playbook
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 21 June 2025
⏱️ 192 minutes
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Air Date 6/21/2025
The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month, we're focusing on the way authoritarian movements operate across multiple fronts simultaneously to reshape society.
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PART 1: ECONOMIC CONTROL
(00:01:20) #1707 Tariffied: Exposing Trump's Artless Deal
(00:26:46) #1713 Yes, GOP Policies Really Are That Bad: Trump's Corruption and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
(00:49:50) #1716 The Fight for Workers: Oligarchy and its Bipartisan Enablers
PART 2: INFORMATION CONTROL
(01:12:17) #1711 How It Started, How It's Going: Assessing the Flooded Zone Full of Shit
(01:34:36) #1714 Trump's Anti-Knowledge Agenda is Inviting the Next Authoritarian Dark Age
PART 3: SOCIAL CONTROL
(02:12:57) #1710 The past is never dead. It’s not even past. Race, Religion, Culture and the Stories we Tell
(02:30:51) #1712 Eugenics Redux: A Gilded Age Ideology Brought Back for the Second Gilded Age
(02:53:26) #1715 The Weaponization of Antisemitism and Counterproductive Violence
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this monthly-ish mix episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast. In our regular episodes, we focus on one major theme presenting our top takes in the first hour of the show before diving deeper into each of those topics in the second half. For monthly-ish-mix episodes like this one, we skim across the surface of the past |
| 0:23.3 | couple of months as a sort of quick recap and reference guide. |
| 0:27.6 | It's well known than many have felt the need to pull back from the news a bit for their |
| 0:30.6 | mental health. |
| 0:31.4 | If that's you, welcome. |
| 0:33.0 | If you know someone who fits that description, send them this episode. |
| 0:36.8 | One last quick note of promotion, we've |
| 0:38.4 | also launched a new show on the Best of Left YouTube channel called Solved. We use our curation |
| 0:44.2 | skills to gather interesting articles and ideas that collectively help us solve some of the biggest |
| 0:49.0 | problems of our day. Best of Left members get solved early and ad free as a podcast, but anyone can check out the video version of the show on the Best of Left YouTube channel. |
| 0:58.8 | Now, for today's episode, we have three big sections for you and lots of subtopics. |
| 1:03.4 | If you want to skip around, reference the show notes for guidance. |
| 1:06.5 | We're breaking it down into three different areas of authoritarian control that Trump is attempting. |
| 1:12.5 | Economic control, information control, and social control. |
| 1:16.9 | We're starting with episode 1707, terrified exposing Trump's artless deal. |
| 1:38.3 | There's been total chaos, and one of the things that we know is that chaos is bad for the market. |
| 1:43.8 | But there's been already lasting damage. |
| 1:50.8 | You know, for the last 80 years, we were trying to create a world where a borderless world, |
| 1:53.3 | at least borders matter less. |
| 1:57.2 | All the sudden, borders matter more. |
| 2:04.5 | And it's not only borders with those you don't like. It's borders with our best friends in Canada. So this is a new world where every country has to ask a question that we never asked |
| 2:11.6 | before. What is the extent of our national economic sovereignty? What will happen if some crazy person in another country in the United States, for instance, |
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