Trump and Democrats Preside Over an Empire in Crisis
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In his address to Congress yesterday, Trump declared war on immigrants, civil rights reforms, Mexico, Canada, Denmark, Panama, social service programs, and more. Meanwhile, the Democrats only put up nominal, performative resistance — in keeping with their “play dead” strategy.
Brian is joined by Dr. Nazia Kazi, a professor of Anthropology at Stockton University, and author of the book “Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics.”
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| 0:00.0 | In his state of the union addressed to Congress, Donald Trump declared war on immigrants, |
| 0:07.0 | the civil rights movement, Mexico, Canada, Denmark, Panama, and social service programs. |
| 0:16.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:20.0 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. Today we're talking with Dr. Nasia Kazi. Dr. Kazi is a professor of anthropology at Stockton University, the author of the book Islamophobia, race, and global politics. Welcome back to the show. |
| 1:08.7 | Thanks, Brian. It's good to be back. |
| 1:13.2 | Well, really good to have you once again. |
| 1:18.6 | I want to get your thoughts, your assessment, your perspective on the Donald Trump administration. |
| 1:22.1 | Take two. Number two, he's number 47. |
| 1:27.3 | He spoke before Congress on Tuesday, as I mentioned in the intro. |
| 1:30.0 | He declared war on big parts of the world, |
| 1:35.7 | including big parts of the United States. I want to start, though, with his attack on DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion, also known as the achievements or some of the |
| 1:43.0 | achievements of the civil rights movement. |
| 1:45.2 | At this point, DEI is so demonized by Trump. |
| 1:48.6 | You could use the term black America as a stand-in term for DEI, not that alone, but certainly |
| 1:55.8 | black America is being targeted by Trump. |
| 1:58.5 | I want to play this clip from his State of the Union address and then get your comments. We've ended the tyranny of so-called diversity, equity, |
| 2:07.1 | and inclusion policies all across the entire federal government and indeed the private sector |
| 2:14.4 | and our military. |
| 2:24.6 | And our country will be woke no longer. |
| 2:31.4 | All right, nausea, the tyranny, the tyranny of DEI. |
| 2:32.3 | Your thoughts? |
| 2:37.7 | Well, I think what we see with the assault on DEI in Trump 2.0 is a parallel to the Muslim ban that we saw in Trump 1.0. |
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