Ben Rhodes

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103 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard Sep 2025

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flew to Germany on the eve of their election, refused to meet with the leader of their country, and endorsed the AFDA party that has neo-Nazi roots in Germany, right?
What happened there is because they have a multi-party system, the AFDA captured 20% of the vote, around a fifth of the vote.
And that's not enough to get them over the hurdle.
In this country, the Republican Party is basically the AFDA.
The Republican Party got captured by that far-right core that was represented by Donald Trump.
I think the good news is this has shocked people awake around the world.
You know, I was just in Germany.
I was there in Munich when JD Vance gave that speech.
People are awake to the danger of losing their countries to the far right.
Thus far, governing elites, the people largely in the center, have not figured out what to do about that.
But I think what we need to see in this country and in Germany is a kind of organic bottom-up resistance and a regeneration of institutions like the Democratic Party or like the Social Democrats in Germany.
It's not going to be the party leaders in the establishment that figure out what comes next.
It's going to have to be the rest of us.
It's going to have to be civil society.
It's going to have to be people out in communities.
And you are beginning to see that even in this country.
manifesting around the country at town halls or in federal workers who are being laid off or people who are just realizing that Donald Trump won on a populism that he does not intend to govern on.
Okay.
He wants to make Ohio greater.
That means Rachel?
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