David French

speaker
54 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Aug

David French’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 4 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 3.

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I I wouldn't call it tearing down the state so much as personalizing the state. matched
All elements of the state are being put in the service of the person Donald Trump, uh being pulled from their primary purposes, being pulled from their primary areas of competence, being remade from the inside out to serve Donald Trump. matched
Uh and this is core to his authoritarian project. matched
I mean, look, we have to understand matched
But he looks at a Xi Jinping out there, he looks at a Vladimir Putin out there, and he sees peers with whom whom he envies in some ways. matched
He envies their autonomy. matched
He envies their authority. matched
And as we've seen with the Canadian trade wars, he envies their spheres of influence. matched
And so he is directing everything in on himself. matched
And this is inherently corrupt. matched
People can see that it's an inherently corrupt. matched
And when they're struggling economically or they're dissatisfied economically or they see all of these self inflicted wounds that are focused in on Trump and not for their benefit. matched
They get angry and you you're beginning to see rumblings here in this country that remind me a bit of the popular revulsion ultimately at Victor Orban in Hungary. matched
Authoritarianism does not sell, especially especially when people feel insecure financially. matched
Let's just say I'm looking at it with extreme, extreme skepticism. matched
I mean, look, when we're talking about non-citizens voting, this should be an easy issue to talk about. matched
Because number one, if non-citizens are on the voter rolls, they should not be there. matched
We should remove non-citizens from the voter rolls. matched
However, the problem of non-citizen voting is microscopic. matched
It has not been documented in any rigorous way to make matched
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