FTA: Stop Waiting for Us to Become an Autocracy. We're Already There

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Original Air Date: 6/9/25 Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to California is not just about immigration and Los Angeles - it is a damning step in his long-lasting effort to to exploit and deploy the U.S. military to act as his own personal police force. Miles Taylor, former DHS Chief of Staff who endured persecution for his criticisms of the Trump administration, joins Norm Ornstein and David Rothkopf to discuss the disastrous implications of Los Angeles and explain why “people should be more worried about this than anything they’ve seen so far in the second Trump administration.” Tune in here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:38.5	Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Words Matter. I'm David Rothkopf. I am joined as ever by Norm
1:47.4	Ornstein. How are you doing this week, Norm? Well, we've had better weeks. But the consolation,
1:56.6	David, is that this week is probably going to be better than next week.
2:08.2	You know, and before I get into the banter here, we've got a guest who's a friend of ours,
2:14.5	Miles Taylor. Miles, you may know, was formerly chief staff, the Department of Homeland Security,
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