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Revenge/Tribute Politics & U.S. Hegemony

Rick Bonetti

Updated: 2 hours ago


Some are dealing with the current crisis and chaos in American politics by taking a break from media. I choose the opposite approach, by watching YouTube videos of PBS Newshour, Washington Week PBS and The Ezra Klein Show.


Ezra Klein's March 14, 2025 very engaging and smart interview of Gillian Tett  "Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It?" on this YouTube video was a little over my head so I had to dig deeper and find links to the various topics they discuss:


Gillian Tett is chair of the editorial board for the Financial Times and she co-founded Moral Money, the paper's sustainability newsletter.


Four books Tett recommends are:


Thom Hartmann's March 17, 2025 article in The New Republic: Trump’s Imperial Fantasy: To Be Polk, McKinley, and Putin—All at Once: Trampling rights, imposing tariffs, gobbling up others’ territories. Trump is imitating his role models to a T asserts "from James Polk’s expansionist conquest to William McKinley’s imperialist scheming to Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian crackdowns, Trump isn’t just following in their footsteps—he’s trying to outdo them all... Trump’s imperial fantasy isn’t just about power—it’s about dismantling democracy itself. Like Polk, he dreams of annexation; like McKinley, he thrives on manufactured conflict; and like Putin, he seeks absolute control."


Jonathan Rauch in The Atlantic article One Word Describes Trump, concludes that "the history of patrimonial rule suggests that their most effective approach will be hammering home the message that he is corrupt." PBS Newshour lays our the Administrations conflicts of interest..


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