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

It's not just the left.

When Donald Trump lost to Ted Cruz in the Iowa caucuses in 2016, his reaction was to say Ted Cruz rigged the Iowa caucuses.

He's never accepted defeat.

at anyone's hands.

I mean, he could have played for England or Nigeria, but he chose the US.

The Miller line, by the way, just for listeners in the UK, viewers in the UK, to understand how batshit crazy the American right is.

I think sometimes people don't quite get it.

You guys have your Farages and your Lowe's and your Kemi Badenoch.

I don't think you quite get how unhinged the American right is.

When the birthright citizenship decision came down from the Supreme Court, when the Supreme Court said, actually, we're going to go against Trump, very narrowly, by the way,

and say that actually birthright citizenship is explicitly laid out in the constitution.

If you're born in the US, you are an American.

The reaction from the right led by Stephen Miller was so unhinged that one prominent right-wing commentator suggested as an option of compulsory sterilizations of foreign women to avoid them from giving birth in this country.

Miller himself was asked on TV, should we start checking women coming into the country to see if they're pregnant before we give them a visa?

This is the insanity

On the American right.

Not like Nigel Farage, I did not get an invite.

britain rupert lowe was in texas doing a joe rogan show and he was putting out pictures saying happy independence day exactly yeah if we did that if alice if you and i did that went to france or germany or india if i went to india and celebrated indian independence with my family extended family there it would be like oh go back to india that's where your loyalties lie

Oh, yes, very much so.

I do, unfortunately, live in D.C.

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