Since Trump Claims He Runs Venezuela, What is He Doing to Help the Victims of the Devastating Earthquakes?
We begin with the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, a country where 8 million people were in need of humanitarian aid before the earthquakes according to the UN. Joining us to discuss what the administration is doing to help a country Trump claims he already runs is David Smilde, a Professor of Human Relations and senior associate at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research at Tulane University. He has published five books on Venezuela and studied the country for 34 years, living there most of that time, and is the co-author of, The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela: Revolution, Crime and Policing during Chavismo. The author of the Substack Venezuela and United States, he has an article at Responsible Statecraft, “Under Team Trump’s eye, Venezuela makes move toward elections.”
DHS and ICE’s Criminalization of Protests Against Their Thuggish Cruelty
Then we look into the aggressive campaign by DHS and ICE to criminalize protests against ICE cruelty in Texas and Minnesota using Trump’s NSPM-7 under which the DoJ requires no crime to actually have been committed. They only need “indicators” which are broad enough to sweep up millions of Americans considered “anti-American,” “anti-capitalist,” “anti-Christian” and “extremists on migration.” Joining us is David Schultz, a Professor of Political Science at Hamline University and University of Minnesota School of Law. He is the author of 30 books and various articles on American politics, ethics, election law, and the media, most recently Election Law and Democratic Theory, and American Politics in the Age of Ignorance: Why Lawmakers Choose Belief Over Research. His latest book is Generational Politics in the United States From the Silents to Gen Z and Beyond.
As Trump’s Poll Numbers Crater, Cracks Are Emerging in Trump’s White, Blue Collar Base
Then finally we speak with Steven Greenhouse, a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation who was previously a reporter for The New York Times where he covered labor and the workplace for nineteen years. He also served as a business and economics reporter and a diplomatic and foreign correspondent and is the author of The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker and Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor. We discuss his latest article at The Guardian, “Cracks are showing in Trump’s white, blue-collar base.”