The Hard Truths: A Conversation with David Rothkopf

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The hard truth is anyone who was paying attention knew this was coming. That as soon as we allowed the man who instigated a coup back into the Oval Office dark days were ahead, so now we must do everything we can to not only prioritize getting these people out of power - and winning every single election - but to hold the people who allowed this accountable so we never find ourselves in this position again. The rules need to change. The institutions need to change. The power structure needs to change. And that starts today, with us, and finishes with a whole new group of voters who have no loyalty to how it was, but know it can be better than this. We know the mainstream media has let us down, so independent work like mine needs your support more than ever. The extremists have been able to shape the minds of too many people in this nation because the far right invested in their voice. Please give us a chance to fight back. If you find worth in the work we do, please SUBSCRIBE to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with the rants, directly to your inbox so even if I’m off social media you will still get access to my work. I truly can’t continue to do this without your help. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: The Rothkopf Group: https://trgmedia.com DSR Network: https://thedsrnetwork.com/ Deep State Radio:https://pod.link/1245002955 Need to Know: https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/ As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… https://TOVALA.com/politicsgirl code: politicsgirl https://oneskin.co/politicsgirl code: politicsgirl https://iRestore.com code: politicsgirl https://3Dayblinds.com/politicsgirl https://FirstDay.com code: politicsgirl

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0:00.0	You actually have the worst possible policies for the United States of America.
0:07.0	Not 15 degrees off from where we should be.
0:11.0	180 degrees off, bad for us, making our economy weaker, making our health care worse,
0:19.0	making our defense weaker, making our enemies stronger, making diseases more likely to take a high toll destroying, destroying the environment, getting rid of the EPA, getting rid of the goals that we've got to protect the environment.
0:34.6	Everywhere, it's comprehensive if a foreign enemy invaded the United States and said, we're got to protect the environment. Everywhere, it's comprehensive if a foreign enemy invaded
0:39.6	the United States and said, we're going to destroy its institutions, we're going to destroy its
0:44.8	competitiveness. We're down $11 billion in tourism. Nobody's coming to study in our schools anymore
0:52.5	because we've scared the best brains who used to come here away.
0:57.3	If we had come up with a plan to stop the Politics Girl podcast.
1:18.8	I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.
1:21.3	So when things are this crazy, when the news is a never-ending onslaught of shocking and unprecedented chaos, when everything you know
1:29.2	about how things work seems to be up for debate, it's difficult to know what to do. Honestly, it's
1:34.2	hard to even function properly with everything that's going on right now. So today I thought we would
1:39.0	take a step back to get the thoughts of a man who is used to asking the big questions and considering
1:43.7	the big picture.
1:44.9	My friend David Rothkopf.
1:46.7	For those who don't know David, he is the CEO of the Rothkopf group, a bestselling author,
1:51.4	a journalist, and host of the Deep State Radio podcast.
1:54.5	He is also someone who truly understands government, having served as deputy undersecretary of
1:59.4	commerce and international trade policy in the
2:01.7	Clinton administration, as well as working as a professor in international affairs at Columbia
2:05.8	University, Georgetown, and Johns Hopkins. He is a contributing columnist to The Daily Beast,
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