Welcome to the Bull Work Podcast, I'm Charlie Sechke. It is Friday and look who is back with us? Our colleague and good friend Amanda Carpenter.

Amanda, welcome back to the Bullwork.

It is so good to be back, Charlie.

I should just mention, I mean Amanda a writer and editor at Protect Democracy, which is

out with this massive new report about the authoritarian playbook, and man, I have to say it is, it is chilling, but it is important.

It's why I devoted my morning shots newsletter.

It's one of those things where, if you don't read it today,

you need to download it, print it out, put it in your file, because this is one of those deep breath moments in America.

So congratulations on the report Amanda.

Yeah, thank you.

It was a big team effort, you know, protect democracy.

We have, you know, over 100 people now, a lot of people from different walks of life.

We've got lawyers, we've got former whole steppers, we got

progressives, we got conservatives like me, and so truly building a consensus

document on what the threats are to really focus on by Trump 2.0 administration is harder than you think.

I would say the biggest task is sort of separating as we know as you know Charlie

and dealing with tracking Trump since 2015. He says a lot of stuff and there's always a tendency like

right what do you focus on and so I really tried to drill it down to this is what

he's promising on the campaign trail, you know, stuff from his mouth, but then also

walking through the power so he could draw upon as president to make them real policy,

and then going through the plans being developed by all these

outside groups to help them do it so you can't dismiss these things. There are issues

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