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🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:00.0 | Listener supported WNYC Studios. |
0:07.2 | We're on WNYC. |
0:20.9 | So we heard from Cory Booker. |
0:22.5 | Now we'll open up the phones and hear from you as the Trump second term resistance movement spreads. |
0:28.8 | I was thinking you might say it's now a strange bedfellows resistance of a spreading range from the socialists to the capitalists. |
0:37.2 | What do I mean? Of course, |
0:38.1 | the Democratic Socialist Movement always opposed Trump with his tax cuts for the rich while cutting |
0:42.1 | services for everyone else and his IED, as I called it in our newsletter last week, the opposite |
0:48.9 | of DEI, Trump's inequality, exclusion, and discrimination policies, IED policies, as certainly the |
0:57.9 | socialist left would characterize it. But last week, we saw deterioration of the Republican vote |
1:03.9 | in the elections in Wisconsin, in Florida. Senator Booker referred to those. And you could say |
1:10.7 | Wall Street is now helping lead the |
1:13.6 | resistance. Is that too far-fetched? But they're removing trillions of dollars from the economy to |
1:19.2 | protest Trump's tariffs policies if you look at it that way. So it's a strange bedfellows resistance |
1:25.7 | coalition, if you want to look at it that way, |
1:28.8 | from the socialists to the capitalists at the moment. |
1:31.8 | And by the way, the Dow was down another thousand points so far this morning. |
1:35.1 | And on Saturday, there were protests around the country and some internationally as well |
1:39.9 | in the biggest day of demonstrations yet with the theme of hands off. |
1:44.8 | So call in, people are already calling in, our lines are already full. |
1:48.5 | You can keep texting. |
1:49.9 | Hands off, what? |
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