Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast. I've always learned just the high-level

understanding that the Nazis were partly able to come to power because the opposition at the time

was too caught up in infighting to create a coherent resistance. With hindsight, it's easy to

lament how badly they miscalculated

the circumstances, but living through modern day and watching the Democratic Party struggle

gives even more clarity to how that kind of inability to get organized in the face of

existential threats to democracy can happen. For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 50 minutes

today includes Velshi, The Rational National, Al Jazeera English, the Kyle Kalinsky show,

the Adam Friedland show, and Un-Effing the Republic.

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

Section A, Dark Money and the Influencer War, followed by Section B, A-PAC, Israel, and

Complicity, and Section C, mostly weak, but signs of life.

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and comments. That's all on the best of the left YouTube channel, linked in the show notes.

And now, on to the show.

We all know by now that the Republican Party is no longer a functioning political party in America.

It is a fully captured vessel of authoritarianism, which makes it even more vital

that the Democratic Party rise to this moment in defense of our democracy.

But whether national democratic leadership is unwilling or simply unable to do so,

they are largely not rising to this moment.

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