Is Democracy Doomed? + A Conversation With Ali Velshi

Mea Culpa

MeidasTouch Network

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Today on Mea Culpa, I’m joined by Ali Velshi, MSNBC anchor and senior economic analyst known for his fearless reporting on politics, global affairs, and social justice. Together, we break down the growing assault on truth, education, and democracy. We unpack Harvard’s stand against the attack on higher education, the broader war on elites, and Elon Musk’s quiet retreat from the political spotlight. We expose the White House lies from tariffs crippling the economy to immigration crackdowns rooted in fear, and ask the urgent question: when will people finally wake up? Thanks to our sponsors: Hims: Start your free online visit today at https://Hims.com/COHEN Graza: Take your food to the next level with Graza Olive Oil. Visit https://graza.co/COHEN and use promo code COHEN today for 10% off of TRIO! Subscribe to Michael's NEW YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMichaelCohenShow Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticalBeatdown Add the Mea Culpa podcast feed: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen Add the Political Beatdown podcast feed: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is my Mayo Coppah!
0:03.0	This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the one and only Mayor Culper podcast right here on the Mighty Midas Touch Network.
0:23.6	So look for all future episodes of our show behind the Blue Banner icon, and I'm truly thankful that you're here, but now for today's chaos.
0:31.6	I mean, we are truly living through the unraveling of American democracy.
0:35.4	Not as a metaphor, but as a day-to-day, a real-time unraveling
0:40.3	orchestrated from the highest levels of government. This isn't about disagreement over policy,
0:46.3	no. This is about a White House so committed to authoritarian rule, so addicted to cruelty
0:53.3	and control, that it treats the Constitution
0:56.9	like a napkin to wipe its feet on. Donald Trump is not. He is not trying to be president.
1:04.0	All right. He is the president. He is trying to be king. And that should scare the hell out of
1:09.9	every single person who still believes in the
1:12.7	basic premise of a government by the people for the people. Because what we are witnessing right now,
1:19.9	right the second, is an administration that behaves like it's above the law. And a political apparatus
1:26.6	stacked with enablers, with liars and collaborators
1:30.3	making damn sure that no one gets in their way. I mean, take for example the Supreme Court's
1:36.3	recent 7-2 ruling blocking the Trump administration's plan to deport Venezuelan migrants.
1:43.3	Now, on its face, it is a rare and a surprising
1:47.4	moment of resistance from a court that Trump himself helped to reshape. But let's not get it
1:53.5	twisted. This wasn't about compassion or about morality. This was a legal rebuke of executive overreach,
2:02.8	a technicality, not a turning point.
2:06.4	And yet even that was so much for justices
2:09.4	Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas,
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