Summary:

This episode is a straight-line argument: Republicans claim a bunch of values (Lincoln, freedom, small government, fiscal responsibility, “pro-life,” constitutional absolutism)… and then betray every one of them the moment power is on the table. I walk through the receipts — from voter suppression and civil rights rollbacks, to budget blowouts, to selective “freedom,” to constitutional violations — and I use the arrest of Don Lemon as the latest proof point of an increasingly authoritarian posture toward dissent and the press.

Chapters:

00:00 – The core thesis: power is the only principle

03:00 – Small government + fiscal responsibility: the contradiction

06:30 – Don Lemon’s arrest and escalating hostility to the press

08:10 – Accountability, prosecution, and preventing repeat history

10:15 – Final warning: consolidation of power and “comply or die

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Music Credit: Good_B_Music

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Left in Exile Intro

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