Following a wild election in 2024, which included an assassination attempt on then candidate and now President Donald Trump, 2025 was bound to be controversial. Realizing the fears and hopes of millions, the United States began enforcing its borders again, and enacting trade tariffs designed to shore up is dwindling manufacturing base. Geopolitically, attempts were made to wind down the Ukraine war, but other conflicts flared up between India and Pakistan and Iran and Israel. Domestically, the economy continued to hum along on the back of a now extended AI boom, but many people found basic housing unaffordable, and tensions grew as Charlie Kirk was assassinated in front a live audience of students, and citizen journalists showed how complicit and incompetent governments were from the fires in California to the massive fraud in Somalian daycares stealing billions from American taxpayers. Trump’s MAGA, while quick to act in the first 90 days domestically, was slow to respond to many of these real concerns of Americans, and further alienated its base as the administration engaged in two unauthorized attacks on the Iranian nuclear facilities and later on Venezuelan shipping and its president. Tonight, returning guest Borzoi joins us to interpret what forces underlay these events, and where it may take us into 2026.
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