How Firings Lead To Fascism

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

👉 This is an excerpt from the full Weekender episode. Click here for full access and to support the show: Patreon.com/MuckrakePodcast. On this Weekender edition, co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman break down the latest authoritarian power plays, from Trump’s attempted purge of federal institutions to RFK Jr.’s overreach at the CDC, and connect the dots on how neoliberalism and authoritarianism reinforce each other. They dig into the economic warning signs, the chilling reality of AI gone wrong, and what systemic reform would really look like. Along the way: Godfather analogies, stagflation déjà vu, Gaza’s grim future with Kushner and Blair, and even an Oasis detour.

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0:00.0	That all got screwed up. I'm just going to take the bottle top and...
0:06.0	There you go.
0:08.0	There we go. That was a complete nutter mess.
0:10.0	I'm Jared Yates-Saxdon. I'm in a hotel room, opening a beer.
0:14.0	I'm here with my friend Nick Houseleman. How's going, man? This is the Weekender.
0:18.0	The Weekender is here here and it's going.
0:21.4	Although, again, the sense of dread is overpowering at times based on the creep of authoritarianism that continues to rear its ugly head.
0:29.8	And we have to figure out ways to fight against it.
0:32.8	We do.
0:33.7	And I'm in a weird spot because we're talking about the weekender.
0:36.4	And this is actually, you know, Nick, before we did this, I had my therapy session.
0:40.2	Yeah.
0:40.7	Like, your boy is getting ready to see Oasis, which is like something I've wanted to do for forever.
0:47.3	And it's this thing that I'm so excited to do.
0:50.3	And I feel so privileged to be able to do it.
0:52.6	And meanwhile, like all of this is going on.
0:56.2	Yeah.
0:56.7	Well, maybe it's going to be the thing that saves you.
1:02.1	There are 25 people who just heard that and got very excited for that.
1:07.4	So that's off to you.
1:08.5	I'm excited for you, though.
1:09.3	Listen, Oasis is, it's not a, it's not like a painful experience
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