Diving into the Wreckage: Into the Train Wreck w/ C. Derick Varn

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

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4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Varn catch up on the first 100 days or so of Trump 2.0, the inanities and indignities of history forced to move again in dumb, but possibly productive ways. Most of all this moment calls for humility amidst radical political and economic changes we might only be able to 'sane-wash' in 20 or 30 years, if ever.

How have recent events challenged our priors as Marxists or as Millennials or as Americans? Even if the Left is largely powerless to affect global events, do we at least have the courage to situate ourselves and our own subjectivities within the massive changes of the last 10 to 15 years? How might the left wing of capital respond to the current chaos and how might we?

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to diving into the wreckage and the train arrives.
0:09.4	We have been gone for almost six months.
0:11.9	Yeah.
0:12.7	We're now, what, 95 days into Trump's new regime?
0:16.9	Last time we talked was, like, I think, the night after the election.
0:21.7	It was you and me and Andy.
0:24.6	You and I both had, I had a cancer scared.
0:27.6	You had a stroke.
0:29.3	Yeah.
0:30.8	Yeah, for listeners of Antifa, they know what happened.
0:35.7	But for diving into the records, for foreign vlog people, yeah, I had a terrible brain injury,
0:41.0	complications from minor surgery.
0:43.4	Set me back a bit.
0:46.0	But just a couple weeks ago, I got a clean bill of health.
0:48.7	So let's go.
0:50.1	Let's do it.
0:51.1	First 100 days, I think that goes back to FDR, right, and the flurry of executive
0:57.5	orders and legislation that was passed in 1933 in the midst of the Great Depression. And ever since then,
1:05.8	the first hundred days has come to represent for political scientists and pundits or whatever, this sort of,
1:13.1	I guess, this normalized notion that in the first hundred days, a new presidency, a new
1:18.8	administration really sets the tenor and the tone for the next four years. And Trump has not yet
1:25.4	even finished his first hundred days. And I think it's very safe to say,
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