Mackenzie Joy Brennan

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You're Wrong About · The JFK Assassination Part 2 with Mackenzie Joy Brennan · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

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Well, and I'm glad you brought that up because I think we would be remiss not to shout out the other originators of this mistrust in the government.

Because I think there's a subplot here of both sides almost idealizing small government.

And it's easy to understand where that comes from, even on the left, when the executive is what it is right now.

Yeah.

And we see how scary a bad executive can be.

But when Mamdani was sworn in and I'm getting this through Robert Reich, so I trust him to report it well.

But he said something like we have to get away from the idea of small government being the goal because government is necessary as a protective mechanism.

And you think of things like the Americans with Disabilities Act, and I always use that as kind of the poster child of why regulation is necessary in that kind of refuting libertarianism way of thinking that companies and individuals, even with the best intentions, which is assuming a lot, they need something to hold them to what disabled people actually need.

And obviously it's not perfect and its application is flawed, but

You need a government to do that, to look out for the people.

And that's what it should be.

But with Reagan and Thatcher, you saw that government mistrust so actively sown.

And then I was just listening to this this guy who wrote a book on Ruby Ridge, and he was talking about the origin of that branch of anti-government conspiracy theorist mindset being so knit with white supremacy.

So like remembering those origins when we idealize small government, I think, is is prudent because the ideal is a government that protects us and that we participate in.

Like you need even more trust in who you're voting for if that is your goal.

Yeah, and I think even when people do get disillusioned with the nanny state not performing to what they had hoped, is that with the conspiracy theorist bunch, they kind of get stuck in still thinking that the capacity to have this enormous power exists, right?

But they're just not going to participate in it, which is weird internal logic.

But like, it seems that there are two different branches of nanny state.

There's the what I kind of would be OK with the term aside of like protecting disabled people, knowing, say, let's use the FDA as an example.

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