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The Gist

Not Even Mad: Yascha Mounk & Colin Cole

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Today on a Not Even Mad edition of The Gist, Mike is joined by political scientist Yascha Mounk (The Good Fight) and Colin Cole, director of policy outreach and communications at More Equitable Democracy and host of The Future of Our Former Democracy, to fiercely debate whether adopting proportional representation would cure America's polarization or simply plunge the country into parliamentary chaos. The trio also tackles the stalled U.S.-Iran negotiations, analyzing the conflicting strategic goals between the U.S. and Israel, and Donald Trump's temptation to rely on swift military might to solve complex diplomatic issues. Plus, Mike opens with a reality check on the viral ICE airport detentions, and the panel airs their "Goat Grinders" regarding lazy political headlines, the intellectual cop-out of the word "problematic," and movie trailers that spoil the entire plot. Produced by Corey Wara Video and Social Media by Geoff Craig Do you have questions or comments, or just want to say hello? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠thegist@mikepesca.com For full Pesca content and updates, check out our website at https://www.mikepesca.com/⁠ For ad-free content or to become a Pesca Plus subscriber, check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ For Mike's daily takes on Substack, subscribe to The Gist List https://mikepesca.substack.com/ Follow us on Social Media:⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pescagist/ X https://x.com/pescami TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@pescagist To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠ad-sales@libsyn.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGist

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0:00.0

It's Tuesday, March 26th, 2026.

0:07.0

From Peach Fish Productions, it's The Gist. I'm Mike Peska.

0:10.0

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0:13.0

Show your badge number.

0:16.0

This, what you're hearing is a video shot at the San Francisco airport four days ago.

0:23.1

It's heartbreaking, but unlike what that onlooker is yelling, it is not illegal.

0:28.4

We know this because of subsequent reporting by the New York Times in the San Francisco Chronicle.

0:33.7

The woman being detained by ICE agents and her nine-year-old daughter, she is Angela Lopez Jimenez.

0:40.4

The daughter was identified as being under a deportation order, as was the mother.

0:46.0

The judge ordered the deportation in 2019.

0:48.8

She came into the country, requested asylum, went some hearings, then melted into the background and has been living as such

0:55.4

for the last seven years. And then with the latest deployment into airports, the ICE agents,

1:01.7

who were actually tipped off beforehand by the TSA, did detain her. And they can do it.

1:07.6

And Donald Trump was elected to do this. It is a consequence of the democratic process

1:12.8

and a reaction to the previous administration not doing it, not doing it sufficiently to the will

1:19.3

of the American people. Now, there's another argument that you hear in the coverage is that Trump said

1:24.5

he'd arrest the worst of the worst. And this is not that. This is a sympathetic

1:27.9

non-lawbreaker. Yes, yes, he did say that. But he and Tom Homan and Stephen Miller also said

1:34.7

dozens of times that they would be doing internal detentions across the board and not just the

1:40.5

worst of the worst. You might have noticed that Donald Trump says everything and its

1:45.3

opposite. But there was no real question that the administration would be doing many of these

1:52.0

detentions and promised to. In fact, the cleverest retort of the intelligentsia was that it would

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