From a Mad English King 249 Years Later to a Mad American King
We begin with the end of the American revolution against a mad English King that lasted 249 years, only to be replaced by an American mad King bringing about a monied monarchy propped up by oligarchical barons engineering a new techno-serfdom. Joining us is Sasha Abramsky, who writes regularly for The Nation and is the author of several books, including Inside Obama’s Brain, Breadline USA, American Furies, The American Way of Poverty, and his latest book, Chaos Comes Calling The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America. We discuss his article at The Nation, “A Profoundly Un-American Moment: Trump and his enablers have launched an unprecedented assault on American society and values.”
The Wannabe Mob Boss Trump and His Early Years With Made Men His Father Dealt With
Then we examine Trump as a wannabe mob boss, going back to his formative years hanging out with Mafia made men his father dealt with and speak with John Ganz, a Nation columnist and the New York Times best-selling author of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s. He writes the Unpopular Front newsletter on Substack where his latest article is “Musk’s Hyper-McCarthyism: Don’t Take Any of This At Face Value.”
Trump’s Mafia-Style Foreign Policy as the Mob Boss Putin Meets With The Wannabe Mob Boss in Saudi Arabia
Then finally, we look into Trump’s Mafia-style foreign policy, as mob boss Putin is about to meet with wannabe mob boss Trump in Saudi Arabia to carve up the world like Mafia bosses carve up territory. Joining us from Germany is Jacob Heilbrunn, the Editor at the National Interest, a non-resident senior fellow at The Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and a columnist for The Spectator. His books include They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons and America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators.