Hey, everybody. It's Nick Houselman here, co-host of the Muckrake podcast. Unfortunately, the first

couple of minutes of our live show didn't get recorded, so that's why it starts a little bit

abruptly. But the rest of the show went great, so enjoy. Some attacks on journalists and

analysts and so-called leftist and communist and socialist.

I will say, one, history shows us that this is what happens, that authoritarian, they gain power,

and what happens is that they start to use the legal system as one of their main ways to go after

people. So it wouldn't necessarily be attacking quote unquote propagandists, right? It would start

out by probably with immigrants because they're always the people who are like, you know,

at the forefront of this stuff who are always being attacked. And I could see the first

year of Trump's presidency being like an all out assault on immigrants. I think that that is completely

true. I think they've already lined up the strategies for that. I think as it moves forward,

we would undoubtedly see protesters, correct? We would see a lot of people who'd be protesting Trump and his

policies. We've already seen that the state is starting to leverage its power towards protesters,

not just recently with the campus protesters, but also what we've seen in red states creating

situations where people can run them over with their cars. Kyle Rittenhouse murdered a couple of people and got away with it.

So you start to see that sort of stuff start to take off.

The other question here, Nick, is how can you start sort of leveraging the judicial system

and law enforcement against people?

Well, there have to be, quote, unquote, crimes, right?

So what we could talk about are pandemic crimes. I'm sure Anthony Fauci and people like him and

doctors, right, would definitely get in the crosshairs, particularly if Republicans take control of Congress.

There would be no end to the hearings and possible prosecutions. Then all of a sudden,

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