Trump's State of the Union was a two-hour Willie Horton ad designed to keep his shrinking base loyal through blood-soaked imagery borrowed from imperial Rome. Proleftpod traces how Michele Bachmann's 2011 Tea Party response prefigured today's MAGA lies by pretending the Great Recession never happened, just as Trump pretends away ICE murders, the Epstein files, and economic chaos. It's about memory, manipulation, and why the anomalies we remember from the past tell us exactly where we're headed.
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LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE:
Driftglass covers SOTU on The Bob Cesca Show:
https://www.bobcesca.com/the-bob-cesca-interview-driftglass-day-2-25-26/
Driftglass (with Digby and Desi) on the Bradcast with Brad Friedman:
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