Authoritarian Creep(s) [TEASER]
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
The Trump administration has moved at breakneck speed to suppress free speech, mass deport hundreds of individuals without due process, and target judges who dare cross him – moves straight out of an authoritarian playbook.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. This is Leon from Prologue Projects. On this subscriber-only episode of 5 to 4, |
| 0:10.7 | Peter, Riannon, and Michael are talking about the latest horrors coming out of the Trump administration, |
| 0:16.2 | suppression of free speech, attacks on federal judges, and an ongoing campaign of mass deportation without due |
| 0:22.6 | process. Nearly 300 Venezuelans are in El Salvador tonight after being deported from the |
| 0:28.3 | United States without a hearing under a rarely used 18th century law, and despite a federal judge's |
| 0:34.3 | order blocking the move. An administration official claiming many are members of the Venezuelan gang Trend de Aragua, |
| 0:41.3 | but they gave no evidence for how they determined the migrants are connected to the gang. |
| 0:46.3 | Already, the Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on its use of an 18th century |
| 0:51.4 | law to deport nearly 300 Venezuelans to El Salvador. |
| 0:55.3 | As you'll hear, many more of the legal battles Trump has provoked will likely reach the |
| 1:00.1 | court in the coming months and years. Five-four will be here to dissect and analyze every last one. |
| 1:06.4 | Well, depending on how many there are. This is five to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. |
| 1:14.9 | Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have weakened |
| 1:19.9 | our civil liberties like a Department of Defense group chat weakening our national security. |
| 1:25.0 | Oops. |
| 1:25.7 | Oopsie. |
| 1:26.6 | I'm Peter. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm here with Michael. Hey, everybody. And Rianan. Oops. Oops. Oops. I'm Peter. I'm here with Michael. |
| 1:29.4 | Hey, everybody. |
| 1:30.2 | And Rianan. |
| 1:30.9 | Hello. |
| 1:33.8 | They have the same OPSEC that we do. |
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