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

But Trump has an iron grip on the party.

It's now a condition for being in the party.

Every judge they nominate, Alistair, I don't know if you've seen the hilarious, well, not hilarious, but, you know, black comedy hearings on Capitol Hill when a judge is nominated and a Democratic senator says, did Joe Biden win the 2020 election?

And they refuse to answer the question.

A judge.

Someone going for a judgeship will not answer because they're scared that Trump will pull their nomination.

So this is the America we live in now.

Yes, I can't have that hygiene test anymore because I'm a journalist who needs to interview people and there's no one left if you kind of have those hygiene tests.

And you're right.

But just to go back to your point about fire versus fire, I'm not saying that Democrats should break the law.

I am saying that you need to forget about norms.

For too long, the Democratic Party was the party of norms.

We can't do that because we've never done that before.

There's no precedent for that.

That would be violating the norms and the decorum and the decency of our politics.

It was Michelle Obama, who I'm a great admirer of, going and giving that speech and getting huge applause and saying, when they go low, we go high.

No, no.

When they go low, you go lower.

That is what we have to do in politics right now on the left, because the right have no standards left.

They are not following any norms.

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