PDS 2.14 Trump Red Scare 2.0 Fears Are Getting Worse & These Greedy Billionaires Are About to Kill Medicare

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

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0:00.0	Is Trump's federal purge at the beginning of a Red Scare 2.0? And if so, what are the long-term risks?
0:04.5	We're exploiting loopholes that are screwing over Medicare to the point that it could die.
0:09.0	We need to talk about the over $20 billion new state of play when it comes to money, politics, and elections in the U.S.
0:14.4	We're talking about all that today on your brand new Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news, starting with this. Right, so today is the first president's day since Donald Trump took office for the second
0:23.2	time.
0:23.5	And at around just a month in, he has already implemented countless policies that will define his
0:27.7	legacy and change the landscape of the American political system forever.
0:30.6	Especially when it comes to the administrative state and Trump's ongoing efforts alongside
0:34.0	Elon Musk to dismantle American bureaucracy as we know it.
0:36.7	But a big thing with looking at news now and looking forward is also taking a look back.
0:40.8	Because notably, this is not the first time a president has conducted a mass purge of the bureaucracy.
0:45.0	It actually happened during the Red Scare as well, which is also why we've seen countless
0:48.2	comparisons between the McCarthy era and what we're seeing now.
0:50.6	And so with it being president today, I wanted to take a closer look at the past and what it might be able to tell us about the future. Because in the 1946 midterm elections,
0:57.3	Republicans captured both the House and Senate after running campaign centered on anti-communist
1:01.0	attacks. With one of the most notable among their ranks being Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy,
1:04.8	who would, of course, go on to be the main perpetrator of the Red Scare. And under pressure to act, the following year, President Harry Truman signed what became known as the Loyalty Order, which directed the Civil Service Commission to screen
1:13.6	the background of every federal employee for evidence of disloyalty. And those screenings, I mean,
1:17.8	they covered everything, including records across the government, police departments, past
1:21.3	employers, and even college transcripts. With Truman also instructing his attorney general to come
1:25.3	up with a list of what he said were subversive organizations that would be a huge red flag for anyone found to have been a current
1:30.4	or former member. And if anything came up in those screenings, the FBI would then lead a full-fledged
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