Day: March 30, 2025

Trump’s Top Aides Dig the Hole Deeper on Signalgate Speaking Lies on Behalf of Power

We begin with what is now being called Signalgate which exposed the incompetence, amateurism and arrogance of Trump’s top aides only to be exceeded by their unseemly avoidance of responsibility and admission of the obvious that they screwed up. Then in testimony before the Intelligence Committees they made a mockery of the Intelligence Community’s motto of “speaking truth to power” which in the case of Gabbard and Ratcliffe, was a craven example of speaking lies on behalf of the powerful. Joining us is Harold Meyerson, one of the nation’s best-known progressive columnists and editor-at-large of The American Prospect. We will discuss his latest article at the American Prospect, “If Trumpworld’s Security Norms Had Been in Place Before”

The Emerging Resistance and How the Only Pathway Out of Institutional Collapse is on the Left

Then, as opposition to the radical agenda of the Musk broligarchy and MAGA fascism busily plundering our government grows, we examine the emerging resistance since, as long as the United States has competitive elections, there is no way Republicans can retain the House or Senate in 2026 or the White House in 2028. As Trump, Musk, Vance and Vought move fast and furiously to consolidate a new authoritarian Christian nationalist constitutional order, the battle ahead is an uphill one. But the fact remains that neither the centre nor the far right can offer a pathway out of America’s institutional collapse and democratic decay. A movement on the left has been built before, in the US and elsewhere, and Aziz Rana believes there is no alternative to building it again. He is University Professor of Law and Government at Boston College where his research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political development as well as how shifting notions of race, citizenship, and empire have shaped legal and political identity since the founding. He is the author of The Two Faces of American Freedom and The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them, and we will discuss his article at The New Left Review, “Constitutional Collapse.”