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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /481/ Everything is Plausible: Oligarchy – or Worse ft. Corey Robin
Description: On Trump's government, his motives and his modus operandi.
Political theorist Corey Robin talks to Alex H and contributing editors Lee Jones and Alex Gourevitch about Trump II from a domestic perspective. We look at the three main things he's done so far: cutting the civil service, imposing economic sanctions domestically, and his immigration terror politics.
Is Trump a strong president? Does the reliance on executive orders indicate weakness?
What happened to the #Resistance?
Why has the tariff issue, instead of uniting Republicans as in the 19th century, divided them?
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