Trump’s Authoritarian Instincts | Roundtable

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🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Steve Hayes returns to the host chair, joined by coastal elitists Jonah Goldberg, Michael Warren, and Megan McArdle to discuss a wild week in Washington. The Agenda:—The crime debate in D.C.—Shifting toward state capitalism—Does the GOP even believe in free markets anymore?—Best- and worst-case scenarios from the Trump-Putin summit—The DC's 4H has to be pretty modest The Dispatch Podcast is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of our articles, members-only newsletters, and bonus podcast episodes—click here. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.5	I'm Steve Hayes.
1:17.4	On this week's roundtable, Washington, D.C., crime, and Donald Trump's proposal to federalize policing in the nation's capital.
1:25.7	Also, is the U.S. marching towards state capitalism?
1:29.3	And finally, a big picture look at Ukraine and Russia ahead of the Trump-Puton summit.
1:34.8	What would be a good outcome for the United States? What would be a good outcome for Ukraine?
1:39.0	And what would be a good outcome for the world? I'm joined today by my dispatch colleagues,
1:42.7	Jonah Goldberg and Mike Warren and
1:44.8	Megan McArdle from The Washington Post. Let's get to it. If you follow the news at all over the
1:50.0	past week, you have gotten probably two different, very different descriptions of Washington, D.C.
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