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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

(2017/02/03) Witnessing an Emerging Autocracy (Trump’s America)

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Edition #1077

Today we look briefly at Trump’s cabinet, his communication style, his inaugural speech and the foreboding nature of it all

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​Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

Ch. 2: Act 1: Trump's Dark Money Cabinet Is Going To Deconstruct The American Dream! - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 11-28-16

Ch. 3: Song 1: Free Education (feat. Treez & Young DJ) - Jawaan Larue


Ch. 4: Act 2: Trump's Cabinet Poised To Loot The Country - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 12-28-16

Ch. 5: Song 2: ​Crook - Niel Nasset


Ch. 6: Act 3: Masha Gessen on the rules for surviving autocracy - Trumpcast from @Slate - Air Date 11-14-16

Ch. 7: Song 3: All You Fascists - Billy Bragg & Wilco


Ch. 8: Act 4: A Taxonomy of Trump Tweets - On the Media - Air Date 1-13-17

Ch. 9: Song 4: Misinformation - Silvanus


Ch. 10: Act 5: We Need To Talk About That Donald Trump Press Conference - Jay Smooth (@jsmooth995) - Air Date 1-12-17

Ch. 11: Song 5: Tobacco Road - Common Market


Ch. 12: Act 6: Examining Trump's inauguration speech - The Bugle (@hellobuglers) - Air Date 1-20-17

Ch. 13: Song 6: Supervillain - Schaffer The Darklord


Ch. 14: Act 7: The mood of the inauguration - @EdgeofSports w Dave Zirin - Air Date 1-25-17

Ch. 15: Song 7: Fake - Dhiego Ferraz


Ch. 16: Act 8: Trump's team exhibits classic abuser behavior - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 1-23-17


Voicemails

Ch. 17: Followup after receiving some advice - Matt from Pittsburg, PA

Ch. 18: How Trump is tearing people apart - Evan from Texas

Ch. 19: Thoughts on the cis-centeredness of the women's march - Megan from Seattle

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics


Ch. 20: Final comments on Mr. Money Mustache and, unrelatedly, the divide within feminism

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone


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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:20.8

Now welcome to the award-winning Best of a Left Podcast with Coups today from the Tom

0:24.6

Hartton program, The Young Turks, The Trumpcast, On the Media, The Bugle, Edge of Sports

0:30.0

Radio with Dave Zyron, and The Bradcast with guest host Angie Coyote Roach.

0:38.7

It looks like we're about to enter into a brand new era.

0:41.5

I want to read to you a piece that was published, this was back in 2008.

0:51.9

And actually I think it was before that.

0:54.4

I did something like this on the air, just kind of pulled it out of my head.

0:58.9

And then a guy named John Gray and Cincinnati, Ohio, did a much more elegant version of

1:03.3

it.

1:05.1

And I have no idea if his followed mine or if it was just great minds think alike or if

1:09.3

we were all thinking in those terms back then, because this was just a month after George

1:15.7

W. Bush, excuse me, after Barack Obama.

1:19.4

No, this was at the end of the term of George W. Bush.

1:24.2

Obama was running for president, but there had not yet been election.

1:27.5

But here it is.

1:28.8

It's a day in the life of Joe middle class Republican.

1:32.3

And I want to share this with you and then contrast it with what Trump is trying to do.

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