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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

The Trump administration and the Doge Blitzkrie gets unleashed upon the administrative state

has been justified in the name of efficiency, and also of stomping out all things

DEI and woke. Really, when it comes to MAGA, everything about this full-scale reactionary

class war from above has been justified in the name of fighting what they deemed to be the

perversities of DEI and woke. Absolutely bankrupt forms of liberal

identity politics very much laid the groundwork for this racist oligarchic reaction. But whatever the

very serious problems with liberal identity politics, it's a huge and to me pretty obvious mistake for anyone on the

left to be cheering on what's happening right now. Today, I'm interviewing Femi Taewo,

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