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Rather than the wealthy affording stability and the poor being unable to afford it,

being forced to be renters, being forced to get into foreposures,

instead here everyone gets an equal chance to buy the stability they want in their lives

while having the opportunity to access goods that everybody else currently holds.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

Welcome to the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can be to

for a town populists like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.

We're just over 500 days into Trump's presidency now and I think it's worth to take stock even at the risk of depressing you and myself.

The first six months after he was elected was scary because he really didn't know where anything would be headed, but they were also full of the promise of resistance,

full of the promise of most Americans coming together to really show that we do not stand for this kind of politics. The next six months after that

saw a little bit of moderation in the administration, the departure of people like

Steve Bannon from the White House, but also the slow capture of the Republican Party

by Trump's people.

It was a bit of a mixed murky picture.

The last six months in my mind have been the most unmitigating the disastrous.

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