Thursday, April 17, 2025

Professional Left Podcast Episode 893: The Monster In The Mirror


"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him."  -- Franklin D. Roosevelt


The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Ep 893: The Monster In The Mirror

April 17, 2025

This week, we're examining the disturbing parallels between past and present as we approach the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. We'll explore how the extremist rhetoric that drove Timothy McVeigh has found new life in today's political landscape.

We dive into the Republican propaganda machine's decades-long strategy of relentlessly blaming liberals for everything—from Newt Gingrich's exploitation of tragedies to the current rewriting of January 6th as patriotic heroism. We'll show how the right's villainization of Democrats created the conditions for both McVeigh's terrorism and today's embrace of similar extremism.

Plus, we'll cover the troubling developments of Trump's second term: government agencies dismantled, whistleblowers threatened, court orders ignored, and economic policies that threaten ordinary Americans. Join us as we connect the dots between the monsters of our past and the reflections we're seeing today.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hurry up! I'm jonesing for a response to David Brooks call for a rebellion!

Anonymous said...

YES!! Seconded!

Anonymous said...

Just love those enduring walks down Hell's memory lane.

I know not everyone lived through it or is aware of how the GOP got here.
living through the reliving of bad history re enacted while those that supported it rise to the mental level of being baffled.
I How we Triage The vitals and stop the bleeding, shield from the onslaught and defeat the zombie horde and get to the other side of this is a worthy discussion.

dinthebeast said...

Three things (I found on the internet yesterday) actual autistic children will never do:
1. Find a dead bear on the road and pick it up so they can eat it.
2. Decide that they might get in trouble for eating the bear.
3. Dump the dead bear in Central Park to frame a cyclist for its killing.
I actually don't know if that is true because there are all kinds of autistic people in the world, and perhaps one of them might develop a taste for roadkill. I've known otherwise normal (!?!!) people who ate roadkill.
We went down to Oakhurst again today for the "No Kings" protest. A bit smaller than the last one (Hands Off) on the fifth, but still a good turn out for a town of less than 5K.
On the day of the Oklahoma City bombing, I was at work driving a delivery route for furniture and appliances for a local department store. I was also supposed to go to the Navy Exchange (the PX on the Alameda Naval Air Station) and pick up some appliances to deliver for them, but somehow they wouldn't let us onto the base in our 20 foot bobtail that we had gotten second hand from Penske...

-Doug in Sugar Pine