Has Trump Gone Too Far?

Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

Nick Freitas

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

4.4 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Donald Trump has done something no president in modern history has managed: he’s pushed the Overton Window so far that the New York Times is openly calling on Democrats to shut down the government to stop him. So, has Trump really gone too far? We’re going to look at 3 key issues and examine the arguments both in favor and against what he’s doing.

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00:00:00 Intro

00:02:30 Why The New York Times Wants Democrats to Shut Down the Federal Government

00:04:34 Sending the National Guard into Chicago

00:06:02 Blowing up Venezuelan Drug Traffickers

00:07:10 ICE Crackdown and Mass Deportations

00:10:44 The Left’s Perspective: This is an Authoritarian Takeover

00:27:49 The Libertarian Perspective: Principled Opposition

00:41:25 The Conservative Perspective: Support With Reservations

00:55:40 The Postliberal Perspective: Trump Isn’t Going Far Enough

01:11:04 Is Trump Going Too Far?

01:20:53 The Charlotte Stabbing Is a Wakeup Call

01:26:02 What is Necessary to Maintain a Free Society?

01:31:40 Why Progressives Keep Siding With Criminals

01:36:40 Is Trump’s Approach Working?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Well, Donald Trump has managed to do something that I guess probably no president in modern history has been able to accomplish.
0:07.9	He has convinced the people of the New York Times that the federal government should shut down.
0:13.8	That's right.
0:14.4	In a recent article by Ezra Klein titled Stop Acting Like This Is Normal,
0:19.5	they are actually advocating for Democrats to shut down the federal government.
0:23.5	Now, that is quite an over-10 window shift in modern presidential history.
0:28.5	And the question is, is why are they saying this?
0:31.3	Well, today we're going to look at three specific policies that have been widely mentioned
0:36.5	by a variety of people across the entire
0:39.0	spectrum of political ideology.
0:41.8	The first one we're going to talk about has to do with Trump's policy on immigration.
0:46.3	We're also going to talk about his policies with respect to combating the cartels, as
0:50.9	well as whether or not it's legal to send the National Guard into certain cities which are struggling with crime problems. So we're going to go ahead and take a look at all of these today on making the argument. I'm your host, Nick Fradis, with me in the studio of my beautiful ride, Tina Queen of the Bees. Hello, everyone. And then, of course, we have our resident historian political prognosticator, the Oracle of Virginia Christian Heinz. Doing well. I didn't ask how you're doing. I just said that you were here. I'm stating it as a matter of fact. I'm doing well. All right. So I'm going to jump right into this by going over to our friends over at Ground News. And we've got a couple articles that we're looking at over here. One is Chicago prepares for an influx of National Guard troops and immigration agents.
1:29.3	Another one has to do with the discussion on Venezuela to boost troops to tackle drug
1:34.2	trafficking as U.S. strengthens military in the Caribbean. Now, keep in mind as you're looking
1:39.5	through all of this, the ground news is both a website and an app. And it curates all the latest stories and provides you with insight into who is covering
1:47.6	the news and why.
1:49.5	In fact, if you go up to the article here, you can see over here on the bias distribution,
1:53.2	it gives you a very nice graph highlighting who's covering it and what are the reasons
1:57.1	they're potentially covering it.
1:58.2	So if you are like us and you appreciate a little
2:02.0	transparency that goes beyond just the headlines, I want to encourage you to go over to ground.
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