Ezra Klein
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first heard May 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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This is what I think Republicans do really well, is they exploit the most extreme version of Democrats, and then they paint it across the whole party.
The Don Lemon Show · HOT TOPICS | Trump Keeps Failing, What A Loser! - June 5th, 2025 · 5 Jun 2025
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A question we talk about a lot amongst ourselves on the show right now is what timeline are we in and how will we know?
Are we watching the fundamental erosion of American democracy?
You're not going to be a dictator, are you?
I said, no, no, no, other than day one.
Of its liberties.
Of its safeguards.
Are we on a path that is quickly becoming irreversible?
Or are we in the timeline where the Trump administration is doing a lot?
Two pieces recently came out that I thought created an interesting tension and interesting ways to look at this.
In Vox, Zach Beecham wrote this piece called Trump is Losing.
Beecham has covered slides of authoritarianism before.
His book, The Reactionary Spirit, is great on the international perspective for this.
And his recent piece says, it doesn't look like it's happening.
That Trump is losing.
That if you think that what he is trying to do is consolidate a certain kind of power to fundamentally change the nature of how America works, that he is facing the kind of opposition that does not look surmountable.
We live for reasons I won't pretend to understand.
In an age when the only truly bipartisan idea
is that landmark legislation demands triple B alliteration.
President Joe Biden's signature proposal was build back better.
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