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American Prestige

Bonus - What’s Going on with Trump and Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement w/ Vincent Bevins (Preview)

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Danny and Derek invite Vincent Bevins, author of The Jakarta Method and If We Burn, back to the podcast to talk about the early days of the Trump Administration; how the rest of the world views Trump; what Vincent thinks is going on; and his recent article in The Nation on Brazil's Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Landless Workers' Movement, or MST). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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That's kind of conversation to your soul. Hello, Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome to American

0:38.3

I'm Danny

0:41.3

Here, as always, with my friend and comrade Derek Davison, Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner, here

0:55.7

as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davison, and we're very excited to welcome back to the

1:00.0

podcast today. Vincent Bevins. Vincent is a journalist and author. His most recent book is If We

1:06.0

Burn about protest movements in the 2010s and why they didn't do the things that we would

1:10.2

have liked them to do. And he's also the author of a new feature article for the nation,

1:14.5

titled The Power and Symbolism of Brazil's Landless Workers Movement. And we've invited

1:18.7

him to talk to us about that. We'd also just like to start a little bit with maybe talking

1:23.4

about how Vincent understands the lay of the land and what is going on in this country of ours.

1:28.4

So Vincent, first of all, thank you for joining us again. Yeah, thank you for having me back.

1:32.4

So, Vincent, you're someone who's had experience in authoritarian regimes. You've lived around the

1:37.2

world. You have a political experience that expands well beyond the United States. So maybe just the

1:43.1

first question I'd like to ask you is,

1:45.2

how are you understanding Trump? What do you think he's doing? How does he fit into this global

1:51.0

insurgent far rights? And basically, like, what's your macro view on Trump and his behavior so

1:59.4

far? Yeah, and it's, yeah, thanks.

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