The Jamie Weinstein Show

Episode 35: Bill Ayers


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Bill Ayers is a co-founder of the radical left-wing organization, the Weather Underground. He is a self-described “small-C” communist, an activist, and a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Bill and Jamie discuss a wide range of topics, including Bill’s political views, Bill’s dinners with Barack Obama before his presidency, and Jamie’s own dinner with Bill in 2012.

Show Notes

  • About Bill Ayers’ political alignment, his views on voting, and who he has voted for in the past
  • On Donald Trump’s appeal as a leader and his authoritarian tendencies
  • Why Bill admires Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela
  • How he describes his ideology: “small-c communism”
  • His opinion of the Antifa movement
  • What Bill’s agenda would be if he was elected president
  • Why he thinks that Barack Obama and every other American president are war criminals
  • About abolition of the prison system
  • On Bill’s dinners with Barack Obama before his presidency
  • His opinion of Dinesh D’Souza
  • The historical leaders Bill admires the most
  • Bill’s favorite authors
  • On Jamie’s dinner with Bill Ayers, Matt Labash, Andrew Breitbart, Tucker Carlson, and others.
  • On Andrew Breitbart’s proposed road trip with Bill

Links

  • Bill Ayers’ Website
  • 28 Jamie Kirchick – On Trump’s NATO Stance and Weakening of Europe
  • The Fire Next Time
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
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