Damon Linker on Why Trump 2.0 Is More Destructive Than Anyone Expected

But he also speaks in such a hyperbolic way that you always assume that he's sort of exaggerating, puffing himself up, living in a world of rhetoric rather than action. And what's been surprising is the extent to which the administration has actually been willing to follow through on some of the more outlandish promises that it was very easy to assume was just hyperbole. And now the good fight. with Yasha Monk. Can you believe that it has only been one year since Donald Trump took office for the second time?

I feel like it feels like five or ten, but to uh review uh the first year of Trump's administration to make sense of all of the events that have happened in the last 12 months from economic policy to foreign policy to domestic policy to the rule of law to the state of the media and an outlook for what is likely to happen in Gaza for the next three years of this administration, I invited one of my favorite writers and podcast guests, Damon Linke, who writes the notes from the middle ground Substack at demonlinker.substack.com. In the last part of this conversation, we talked about the extent to which the media landscape has transformed in the United States and whether people are pulling the punches in criticizing Trump because of those changes. We talked about the outlook for the next years.

It feels as though an unstoppable force is moving an unmovable obstacle as though an administration intent on pulverizing traditional norms of American society and very adept at doing so. is uh clashing with the very real institutional strengths that the United States does have. We are going to try and uh think through uh what the result of this collision is likely to be. And finally, we do spend a little bit of time talking about the state of the Democratic Party. Has it learned the lessons from the past?

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