This is a portion of Francesca’s interview with journalist David Dayen. To get access to the full interview by becoming a member by joining the Patreon.
This is a portion of Francesca’s interview with journalist David Dayen. To get access to the full interview by becoming a member by joining the Patreon.
David Dayen has a really good brain. He's been tracking and unpacking how corporations have used our government as a door mat for years. In this discussion he, joins Francesca to explains how favoritism and bribery have replaced regulation during Trump 2.0, and how the regime fits the textbook definition of fascism, i.e., corporate control and government authoritarianism.
He also explains the state of antitrust cases under Trump, assesses what could have been done under Biden, and mulls over whether progressives should have pushed further under Biden—and what worked under his administration, until it didn't.
They discuss the serious real-world impacts on the defunding of Medicare, SNAP and WIC and how the 'vengeance budgeting' of the Trump administration has disproportionately defunded blue states. Dayen breaks down what the Zohran Mamdani administration is doing right, and how interventions like city-run grocery stores 'utterly disrupt' the late-stage capitalist hell we find ourselves in.
Featuring:
David Dayen, Executive Editor, The American Prospect
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