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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

This is the second episode in my two-part discussion with Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader

on Trump's intensification of police, ICE, and military repression.

What does this all reveal about MAGA's fascist and authoritarian project?

And about the illiberalism already imminent in the U.S. carceral and imperialist state? Last episode, we talked a lot about ICE

and its personnel's politicization as MAGA ideologists. I somehow forgot to bring up Gregory Bovino, the El Central Border Patrol

sector chief who presided over the vicious L.A. crackdown. A true believing zealot who

released a propaganda video depicting his masked agents in action with Kendrick Lamar's DNA

...