Mehdi Hasan

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4,624 appearances 9 recordings 7 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 9 Jul

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The Rest Is Politics · 552. Trump's Red Card Saga and Germany's Far-Right Machine · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

in the belly of the beast.

So it's all very up close and personal.

But I spend a lot of time with nonpolitical people.

And the beauty of the United States, why somebody asked me recently, are you more hopeful about the U.S.

than the U.K.

And I said, yes, weirdly, even though the challenge against democracy is much bigger in the US than it is in the UK, even though, you know, the threat of political violence and the proliferation of guns much bigger in the US than the UK.

I would say I'm still more hopeful about the future of the US simply because of the vastness of this country.

It is very hard, again, to explain to people who have not visited the US.

This is a continent of a country.

It's just such a big place that you travel up and down the country, as I do regularly.

And every state is like a different country.

Every community is doing its own thing.

And therefore, Washington, D.C.

and Trump still doesn't, at the local level, have the same pull and the same impact as, for example, Westminster or London do in the United Kingdom, where it's very much focused on the capital city.

And it's a much smaller, more crowded, congregated place.

So the U.S.

has space everywhere.

which allows people to do what they want to do.

And there's a lot of resistance to Trump.

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