Jim Acosta: Greenshoots in the Fight for America

To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes

Charlie Sykes

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 719 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Charlie Sykes welcomes CNN veteran and Substack writer Jim Acosta for a weekend conversation on fear, power, and political pushback in the Trump era. They discuss the administration's performative authoritarianism, from mass deportations and censorship to threats against institutions and the judiciary—while also spotlighting signs of resistance, electoral shifts, and green shoots of hope. With humor and urgency, Acosta argues that while Trump wants America to be afraid, the cracks in his facade are beginning to show.

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1:43.0	Welcome to the weekend edition of To the Contrary podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes, joined by the legendary Jim Acosta, longtime CNN anchor, who is now living the dream on Substack like most of us. So thanks for joining me, Jim. I appreciate it very much. You've got. You know, when we, when we look back on on any of these weeks, I would say this
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