Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast. It increasingly feels like we are completely past the era of legitimate differences in political philosophy and policy preferences.

Now that the Republican governing style has been completely consumed by Trumpism, we've entered the era

of scam politics, which fits nicely with Trump's other traditional retail scams and

capitalism's continual reinvention of financial scams and the new age of crypto scams.

For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top

takes in about an hour today includes Straight White American Jesus, Today Explained,

Counterspin, Pitchfork Economics, Legion, More Perfect Union, The Daily Blast, and The Humanist

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

Section A, the big, beautiful scam, followed by Section B, Trump's personal scams, and Section

C, other scams.

But first, a reminder to check out our new show solved on the Best of the Left YouTube

channel.

We're proud of the show we're making, and we promise it's actually pretty unique for a political talk show, on the Best of the Left YouTube channel. We're proud of the show we're making,

and we promise it's actually pretty unique for a political talk show, including the fact that we animate ourselves to make it more visually interesting than just looking at the backgrounds of

our apartments. Last week, we discussed the horrifying aesthetics of fascism, things like the

harshly crafted personal look

known as Mar-a-Lago face, the highly dystopian AI slop churned out by far-right trolls,

including those managing the White House Twitter feed, the staging of dehumanizing photo ops,

and the interplay between all three.

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