How Trump Will Cheat to Stay in Power

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

News & Politics

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🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Brian Tyler Cohen joins Joanna Coles for a dissection of the digital age’s political battleground. Cohen—solo creator of one of the largest progressive platforms in America—reveals how he turned a dead-end acting career into a media empire with 4.5 million subscribers and zero writers. Cohen explains that Trump’s chaos isn’t incompetence—it’s a strategy: flooding the zone, exploiting the slow reflexes of legacy media, and redefining the presidency as a form of cultural warfare. He blasts the Democratic Party’s gerontocracy, their obsession with MSNBC over TikTok, and their chronic failure to meet the moment. As Trump installs loyalists like Pete Hegseth and Dan Bongino into key roles, Cohen warns the real danger isn’t just Trump—it’s the bootlickers willing to weaponize law enforcement on command.

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0:00.0	What causes me to lose sleep at night is the prospect that Trump will say,
0:04.0	you know, we need to take a look at what's happening in all the population centers
0:09.0	in these swing states, in Atlanta and Philadelphia and Milwaukee and Detroit.
0:14.0	And I think that there were late-night vote dumps and all of these votes have to be cast out.
0:19.0	And instead of having somebody like Bill Barr who's going to call it bullshit, rightfully so,
0:22.8	you've got these other people who are going to say, you know what, we think there was.
0:27.1	I think we think there were fraudulent votes.
0:28.8	And so we have to get in there and seize the voting machines.
0:32.2	I'm Joanna Coles.
0:33.2	I'm the chief content officer of The Daily Beast, and this is the Daily Beast podcast. I hope you're
0:37.9	walking your dog or doing something very useful while you're listening to this, but if you're
0:42.2	watching it on YouTube or on your television, you're going to see someone that I am obsessed with. Brian
0:49.0	Tyler Cohen, he speaks with an extraordinary fluency and an urgency, and that has earned him four and a half million followers on his YouTube channel, where he chronicles the news with a myopic precision.
1:05.3	Anyway, I've long been an admirer, and I'm very pleased to spend the next half hour talking to him about what
1:11.6	he thinks about what the legacy of the Republican Party may be and also what the Democrats
1:17.9	should be doing to take it on.
1:21.3	Couldn't be more excited to talk to Brian Tyler Cohen. Why is that such a mouthful your name? I do not
1:28.9	know. But I am astonished at your output. You are like a one-man broadcasting machine. Just
1:36.3	reassure me, how many people do you have writing for you at this point, Brian? So writing for me is
1:42.7	just me. I write everything that I put out.
1:46.3	Write everything you put out because sometimes you do up to seven podcasts a day. Yeah. It's,
1:51.1	it's amazing what you can do when you're willing to sacrifice all of your mental health and
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