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The Muckrake Political Podcast

Trump Fascism Begins As Federal Troops Move In

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The Trump Administration has federal agents brutalizing protesters and violating their constitutional rights in Portland, and has just announced plans to roll them out in major cities around the country. Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss this authoritarian overreach and sound the alarms. Also, they welcome artist Nate Powell to discuss his comic "About Face" that examines militarism, popular culture, and growing fascism.

Transcript

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0:00.0

And you know what? She's the one that never accepted her. I agree. She never accepted her loss and she looks like the fool. Can you give a direct answer? You will accept the election? I have to see. Look, you, I have to see. No, I'm not going to just say yes. I'm not going to say no order. And I didn't last time either. We protect over 9,000 federal facilities across the country. We did that 10 years ago.

0:21.6

We did it long before this civil unrest started and we'll continue to do that.

0:25.6

And so I don't need invitations by the state mayors or state governors to do our job.

0:31.6

We're going to do that whether they like us there or not.

0:34.6

That's our responsibility.

0:36.6

And they really have done a fantastic job at a very short period of time. No problem.

0:42.6

They grab them, a lot of people in jail, their leaders. These are anarchists. These are not

0:46.2

protesters. People say protesters. These people are anarchists. These are people that hate our country.

0:55.4

Hey, everybody.

0:56.7

Welcome to the McCrack Podcast.

0:58.4

I'm your co-host, Chair DeH.

0:59.3

Saxton, as always, I'm here with Nick Halsoman.

1:01.1

We've got a great guest lined up for later today.

1:04.1

We've got Nate Powell, who's an artist who has won a National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, a whole host of awards and prizes.

1:11.2

He worked with Civil Rights, Legend, and Hero, Rest in Peace, John Lewis on the March

1:16.4

trilogy. And today we're going to be talking to him about his comic, about face, about rising

1:21.6

fascism in America rooted in toxic masculinity. And I have a really good feeling about this

1:28.2

conversation what I don't have a great feeling about Nick is the fact that

1:34.9

the federal government has secret police in Portland Oregon kidnapping

1:41.3

protesters and citizens without reading them their rights, holding them indefinitely,

1:47.0

and then on top of that tear gassing everybody around them, brutalizing people.

1:53.0

And right before we began to tape, the President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump,

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