Briahna Joy Gray (The Trump Phenomenon)

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🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Russell chats to Briahna Joy Gray - Host on The Hill, the Bad Faith Podcast and former Press Secretary for Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign. Russell and Briahna talk about the phenomenon behind Donald Trump, how he galvanises working-class Americans and his understanding of the media landscape. Briahna also challenges bipartisan politics and the Democrat Party's shift towards a more populist message. Follow Briahna on Twitter: https://twitter.com/briebriejoy Check out the Bad Faith Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/badfaithpodcast For a bit more from us join our Stay Free Community here:https://russellbrand.locals.com/ Come to my festival COMMUNITY - https://www.russellbrand.com/community-2023/ NEW MERCH! https://stuff.russellbrand.com/

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0:00.0	Hello, you awakening wonders what glorious show is ahead of you if you stay with us.
0:05.0	Wherever you're watching, we only do the whole show in its entirety, unexplicated on Rumble.
0:09.0	If you're watching us on YouTube, click over to there around the 20 minute mark,
0:12.6	because that's when we start really kicking into some serious news and some heavy, heavy truths.
0:18.4	Trump arrest, Trump arrest, it's all part of the spectacle.
0:23.8	Trump arrest. Trump arrest. They've got justice by its testicles. That's what's happening.
0:29.8	Is Trump's arrest just part of the meaningless distraction that prevents us from forever addressing
0:35.5	systemic corruption? Or is Trump a new martyr?
0:39.8	A new martyr that if allowed to rise Phoenix,
0:42.6	like, would rescue us all?
0:43.5	Let us know in the chat what you think about that
0:46.6	because we'll be responding to your questions,
0:48.4	particularly for a member of our locals community.
0:50.1	We'll be chatting to you in there.
0:51.6	We've got some fantastic guests coming on.
0:53.3	We've got Briano Joy
0:54.6	Gray, who was Bernie's former press secretary. What I'm going to ask her about, Garifon's
0:58.5	green assistant, is I'm going to ask her, do you think that there was a sort of an emergent
1:03.2	rise in populism around 2016? We know when Bernie was running to be the Democrat leader, when Trump
1:09.5	was on the rise, that the Democrat Party decided to crush within its own ranks and to double down on
1:15.7	centralized authoritarianism and that we could have a different type of politics. Did you know this?
1:21.5	I didn't know this. One in eight Bernie Sanders voters migrated to Trump. Some of them just sat
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