Announcement: this podcast will be returning to its traditional biweekly upload schedule for the foreseeable future. But I really enjoyed the run of weekly episodes that I've been able to pull off for the past few months, and I hope to do it again some time :)

Damon Linker is a senior lecturer of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and the writer behind the Substack "Notes from the Middleground," which covers the nature of MAGA politics and where it came from. As someone who was far more restrained in his critiques of Trump during Trump's first term, I've found it notable to see how much more concerned he's become about Trump since his second inauguration.

In this episode, I got a chance to speak with him about how the resistance against Trump has been more restrained this time around, why ICE agents are disproportionately located in blue cities, and whether the Trump administration will be able to interfere in the upcoming midterm elections.

Show Notes

"The Other Rally at the Garden" by Damon Linker, Notes from the Middleground

"The Politics of Anger in Minneapolis" by Damon Linker, Notes from the Middleground