The Authoritarian Coalition’s Strategy Of Power Consolidation / Rakeen Mabud

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🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Rakeem Mabud speaks with This Is Hell! about her new essay for Common Wealth that she co-wrote with Melanie Brusseler titled “The Power Grab: The Authoritarian Coalition’s Strategy of Power Consolidation”. https://www.common-wealth.org/publications/the-power-grab Rakeen is an expert on how economic trends impact people’s everyday lives. She was most recently the Chief Economist at Groundwork Collaborative, and has also held roles in the US Treasury Department, Roosevelt Institute and Time’s Up. She holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, and a BA from Wellesley College. We will have new installments of Rotten History and Hangover Cure. We will also be sharing your answers to this week's Question from Hell! from Patreon. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	I put it in my space
0:02.0	I put it in my space
0:04.0	Hey
0:05.0	Big
0:07.0	a The water will be All right for our power and water
0:22.6	The wind
0:23.6	The This is hell.
0:46.3	Chris, what was that very upbeat music that you were playing before the show?
0:52.3	There's this musical group called the Dream Eaters that I became fascinated with.
0:56.7	Okay.
0:57.4	They do songs like, I am the Antichrist, Satan is Lord.
1:01.7	This one I was playing called Every Time I see a Picture of You, I put in my spank bank.
1:06.4	And they're very, they do like comedic music, but it's like, I just couldn't stop laughing.
1:11.8	And it's always like poppy and upbeat. Some of it sounds a little gaffe too, but like, yeah. I wasn't listening close enough to the lyrics. I was just noticing how poppy and upbeat it was. And now I want to hear more of this band. I think I've heard of them before. That sounds really familiar, the Dream Eaters. People are long.
1:26.4	I thought they're a new group.
1:27.6	They've been on like 10 years it looks like from what I see on YouTube here.
1:29.9	But yeah.
1:30.5	Okay.
1:31.3	Uh, That sounds really familiar, the dream eaters. I thought they're a new group, but they've been on like 10 years it looks like from what I see on YouTube here.
1:30.0	But yeah.
1:30.5	Okay.
1:31.6	Behind every great fortune lies a great crime because this is hell.
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