Trump's Crackdown on Dissent

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🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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The price of eggs is still high, the stock market is sinking, but Donald Trump is fulfilling at least one campaign promise: using the power of the government to punish those who disagree with him. ICE arrests one of the leaders of the campus protests at Columbia—a legal permanent resident—and sends him to a detention facility, while the administration strips $400 million in grants and contracts for the university itself. And, with a pair of executive orders, Trump seeks to withhold student loan relief from people who help undocumented immigrants, provide gender-affirming care for minors, or run DEI programs—and he bans a prominent Democratic-affiliated law firm from even entering federal buildings. Meanwhile, Trump refuses to say whether we should expect a recession, more juicy reporting emerges of the Cabinet and Elon Musk meeting last week, and Democrats squabble over how to respond to it all. Jon, Lovett, and Tommy discuss Trump's crackdown on dissent, whether he can be swayed by political pressure, and how Democrats should aim for authenticity rather than the latest meme when making their case. Then, Lovett catches up with Bernie Sanders on the Michigan leg of his "Fight Oligarchy" tour. Correction: an earlier version of this episode misattributed the origin of the 2024 explosives attack on Hezbollah. It was an Israeli operation; we were talking quickly and said the wrong name. We're sorry!

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1:30.1	I'm John Lovett.
1:30.7	Tommy Vitor.
1:31.4	On today's show, Donald Trump may plunge the country into a recession, but seems oddly okay
1:36.2	with it, which seems like a problem for all of us that we'll talk about.
1:39.2	We'll also get into the throwdown between Elon Musk and Trump's cabinet during a meeting where Elon reportedly
1:45.0	fought with Marco Rubio over not firing enough people and Sean Duffy over Musk's attempt to fire
1:50.3	air traffic controllers.
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