The Democrats Daunting To-Do List When They Take The House and Senate
We begin with a to-do list for the Democrats, assuming they will take over the House and Senate, which prioritizes not the impeachment of Trump but the kakistocracy of a cabinet starting with the thug in charge of an army of untrained thugs Mark Wayne Mullen, along with Hegseth, Blanche, RFK Jr., Vought, Rollins, Patel, Carr, Burgham, Lutnick and Pulte. Joining us is Norman Ornstein, a contributing editor for The Atlantic and an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He is the author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism, co-authored with Tom Mann, now with an updated version, It’s Even Worse Than It Was. He is the co-author of One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported and he has an article at The New Republic we discuss, “The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House.”
Hegseth’s Obscene Focus on Lethality Mimics Iran’s Public Executions and Gives Aid and Comfort to Jihadis
Then we examine Hegseth’s obscene focus on “lethality” now extended to livestreaming the public execution of a jihadi whose martyrdom will inspire other jihadist to kill American soldiers. Joining us to discuss the bluster from the Pentagon’s small man with a big job bent on inflicting maximum destruction as opposed to achieving strategic objectives is Suzanne Schneider, Executive Director and Core Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She specializes in political theory and history of the modern Middle East and is the author of The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism. Currently a visiting fellow at Kellogg College at Oxford University, her writing about contemporary politics, religion, and violence has appeared in New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Mother Jones, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, n+1, and Jewish Currents among other outlets.
Why Did Leading California Democrats Cave to Larry and David Ellison’s Blackmail?
Then finally we try to understand why leading California Democrats caved to Larry and David Ellison’s blackmail, scuttling the anti-trust suit that would have prevented a Trump-friendly right wing oligarch backed by Saudi money from buying up Hollywood along with CBS and CNN. Joining us is Harold Meyerson, one of the nation’s best-known progressive columnists and editor-at-large of The American Prospect. He’s also been a Washington Post columnist and executive editor of LA Weekly, and has written for a number of prominent magazines and newspapers. We discuss his latest article at The American Prospect, “The Democrats Who Let Trump’s Oligarchs Buy Hollywood: The Ellisons enlisted a host of Democratic notables to undercut the proposed merger’s opponents.”