Welcome to Media Roots Radio.

This is Robbie Martin.

Today I have a special guest, Eric Draitzer of Stopimperialism.org and writer or counterpunch

and host of the counterpunch podcast.

Well, thank you so much for coming on today.

Hey, thanks for having me.

It's my pleasure to follow up on our really fun chat of a few weeks ago on my show.

Yeah, it was a fun chat.

It was also a revealing and kind of scary chat as we were realizing what, you know, what could be the potential of, um, of all these different pieces coming together with the Trump administration.

Uh, we discussed, you know, the neocons that were circling Trump, how they would end up landing in the Trump

administration.

And we're already two weeks in, and this is, I mean, I don't know if you feel the same way I do,

but this is far worse and way more intense than I was expecting going into this. I did not realize that this was,

and it almost appears to me that this is intended to shock and confuse, at least on some

level of the left, you know, even down to him censoring, you know, National Park Service employees from using social media, you know, even down to him censoring, you know,

National Park Service employees from using social media.

You know, it seems like a minor thing.

But there's all these little things that Trump has done so far to enrage people on the left-leaning side of the spectrum,

you know, already two weeks into his presidency.

And I just want to know what your general feeling is of what this has been like for you,

just two weeks in.

Well, I think that what you're getting at is something pretty important.

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