Mehdi Hasan

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

Mehdi Hasan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

Even now, in his second term, his poll ratings are at their lowest ever.

He's now more unpopular than he was even the day after January the 6th, according to some polls.

So, you know, 60, 70% of the public are against him.

So just in sheer numbers, the majority of Americans do not agree with what's going on.

The big issue is, are the people of power...

And that's the fundamental divide right now.

It's not about fundamentally left and right.

It's about the powerful versus the powerless, even liberal institutions, which stood up to him in his first term.

In the second term, we've decided to roll over the big universities, the big media companies, the big law firms.

They have all kind of bowed the knee to Donald Trump.

And obviously Silicon Valley at the front, the big tech firms.

And that's the real challenge.

But ordinary people?

No, ordinary people I don't think have changed.

I think, you know, there's a small minority of Trump voters, MAGA voters, whose brains are being rotted by the day because of the algorithm, because of social media.

I think Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have a lot to answer for.

Historians will, if we have historians in the future, will ask questions about what role these tech bosses played today.

in manipulating and brainwashing and inciting the public.

The Democrats are certainly in a deep mess.

In terms of the both sides, and that is a media phenomenon, I do fundamentally blame the United States media for approaching it in that way.

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