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Many of the top administration officials came from organizations like freedom partners or Americans for Prosperity that were run and directed as part of the co-political network

and there's by all accounts a very friendly relationship

between the two.

They certainly feel as though their interests

are being well served by this administration.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

Welcome to the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can be to for a town

populist like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.

I am recording this introduction on the day in which brave people in Venezuela are fighting for democracy are fighting for

their freedom. I don't know what will have happened by the time you listen to this. I hope they will have succeeded.

Perhaps my second preference is for the regime to have won. What I fear the most is

a repeat of the situation in Syria in which you have years and years of bloody civil war.

But what's particularly exercising me today is the extent of support that the bloody dictatorship of Nicholas Maduro has received from parts of the left in the United States across Europe and especially the United Kingdom.

Now there are many reasons for this. There has always been a market on the left to support any dictator as long as he

claimed to be left-wing and claimed to oppose the United States from the Iranian

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