Strange days have found us…Political commentator and electoral polling guru Fernand Amandi leads this weekly roundtable discussion about news, politics and culture. Frequent guests include prominent national reporters, former and current elected officials, opinion makers, filmmakers, and anyone else…
Frank Figliuzzi and Leonard Pitts Jr.
Are we approaching the brink of a full-on American dictatorship? #HidingInPlainSight author and Gaslit Nation's Sarah Kendzior + ex-CIA officer officer Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, join #StrangeDaysPodcast for an urgent and sobering discussion.
Fascism expert Timothy Snyder returns to #StrangeDaysPodcast, offering urgent advice on how to best resist if Trump refuses to leave + MSNBC reporter & #Separated author Jacob Soboroff exposes how our government horrifically caged migrant children.
Does our response to #COVID19 signal the end of the American era? Wade Davis, whose viral Rolling Stone piece makes a wistful + compelling case for that premise, explains to #StrangeDaysPodcast how we got here in a must-listen episode.
Is Donald Trump really a madman or is his ‘madman act’ a tactic to consolidate power? CNN’s Jim Sciutto explains his take on #TheMadmanTheory while election security expert Jennifer Cohn tells #StrangeDaysPodcast why we must plan for a stolen election.
Can a Democrat really defeat an incumbent GOP President? Legendary Democratic strategist Paul Begala, author of #YoureFired is one of the few to have ever done it and he tells #StrangeDaysPodcast how to get it done and beat one, in a must-listen episode!
How dangerous to our American democracy is the prospect of #TrumpsGestapo? VERY, according to MSNBC’s Malcolm Nance + ex CIA officer/Belfer Center’s Rolf Mowatt-Larssen in this sobering #StrangeDaysPodcast must-hear Headphone episode.
Are authoritarianism experts feeling better about the Presidential election, given Joe Biden’s polling lead? Two of America’s most prescient scholars on autocracy & fascism, Ruth Ben-Ghiat + Sarah Kendzior, sound the alarm on a must-hear #StrangeDaysPodcast
Does your stomach churn when you see Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s name trending? #SCOTUS expert David Kaplan explains why today’s Supreme Court is #TheMostDangerousBranch + Katherine Stewart warns of the rise of religious nationalism in a sobering #StrangeDaysPodcast
If the current polling holds, will an epic GOP electoral defeat forever alter American politics? Maddow show producer Steve Benen, author of #TheImpostors, explains why to #StrangeDaysPodcast + MSNBC’s Zerlina Maxwell proclaims #TheEndOfWhitePolitics
If Joe Biden wins, do anti-Trump ad makers like Project Lincoln + Meidas Touch deserve some of the credit? #StrangeDaysPodcast talks to the creative geniuses behind both groups: Rick Wilson and Reed Galen + the Meiselas brothers in a MUST LISTEN episode!
Will it ultimately be the women of America who salvage the republic? Amee Vanderpool tells #StrangeDaysPodcast why sheroes will save the day + Daryle Lamont Jenkins explains why closeted racists must be outed and subjected to public shaming.
Has anything been done to make the 2020 elections safer from Putin’s meddling? Magnitsky Act mastermind + Putin’s greatest foe Bill Browder tells #StrangeDaysPodcast what’s changed + brilliant ex FSU Football star Dr. Myron Rolle on #BlackLivesMatter
America is broken. Can we fix it? Writer, thinker & activist, Toure explains why #GeorgeFloydProtests are galvanizing the world + MSNBC legal analyst Barb McQuade tells #StrangeDaysPodcast why America’s most dangerous man, AG Barr is lying about Antifa.
Why is Frank Figliuzzi so concerned about the coming chaos? Listen to the ex FBI Asst. Director tell #StrangeDaysPodcast why things have taken a darker turn + Miami Herald’s Leonard Pitts Jr. explains why it may be hard to forgive our fellow citizens.
What if Donald Trump wins? As disturbing a thought as it is, we explore the nightmarish question w/ Washington Monthly’s Paul Glastris + Mother Jones’s David Corn tells #StrangeDaysPodcast his assessment of Robert Muller a year after his investigation.
Are we underplaying the dangerous domestic threat the white terrorist Trump death cult means for America? Author Jared Yates Sexton paints a disturbing picture and Cult Expert Steven Hassan explains to #StrangeDaysPodcast how #TheCultOfTrump acts like a death cult.
Is Donald Trump’s catastrophic response to the #coronavirus an active measure? Legendary ex-CIA intelligence officer John Sipher offers his take to #StrangeDaysPodcast + Author & Johns Hopkins Professor Thomas Rid explains the history of disinformation.
Who should be Joe Biden’s VP pick? Kennedy School Fellow and author of #SayItLouder, Tiffany Cross tells #StrangeDaysPodcast who she’d take + Fletcher School Professor Dan Drezner explains why Trump should be called #ToddlerInChief
This week Donald Trump declared himself a dictator, so now what? Gaslit Nation host and New York Times bestselling #HidingInPlainSight author Sarah Kendzior explains to #StrangeDaysPodcast + Pastor John Pavlovitz foresees a reckoning for Trump evangelicals.
Has the #coronavirus economy forever widened the gap between rich & poor?...or can the new federal stimulus bills prevent that? Two brilliant thinkers, Eurasia Group's Ian Bremmer + Politico's Mike Grunwald share their insights on #StrangeDaysPodcast.
Is the media normalizing Donald Trump during the #coronavirus as they did in 2016? Playboy White House Correspondent Brian Karem takes #StrangeDaysPodcast inside the briefing room + #DirtyRubles author Greg Olear explains why Trump is the #TeflonDon.
In a panic over your finances & 401(k) thanks to the #CoronavirusPandemic? #StrangeDaysPodcast has you covered w/ CNBC financial guru Ron Insana offering his best advice + PoliSci expert Dr. Jason Johnson grades how politicians have responded to #coronavirus.
Freaked out about the #coronavirus? Fear not, #StrangeDaysPodcast is here to guide you by the hand w/ #WorldWarZ creator/mastermind, Max Brooks + the brilliant religious scholar Reza Aslan. Kick back with a cold one & tune in, but #DontBeASpreader!
Now that Joe Biden will be the Dem nominee, will more Republicans vote for Joe over Trump? #NeverTrump Washington Post columnist Max Boot opines + political scientist Marcus H. Johnson explains to #StrangeDaysPodcast WHY black voters saved Joe’s campaign.
Is race still at the heart of what the 2020 election is truly about? And has Joe Biden now vanquished Bernie Sanders?Anti-racism scholar Timothy Wise and legendary Democratic pollster wise-man Stanley Greenberg offer answers to both on this #StrangeDaysPodcast!
A must hear #StrangeDaysPodcast as Washington Post Pulitzer Prize duo Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker paint a disturbing picture of what they found in their book A Very Stable Genius + author Anne Nelson describes the Shadow Network super-powering the radical right.
Are the #DemDebates helping or hurting The Democrats chances against beating Donald Trump? Legendary Democratic wiseman Joe Lockhart shares hard truths w/#StrangeDaysPodcast + star GOP pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson reveals how the other side sees it.
Is the United States now a dictatorship? 2016 #NeverTrump Presidential candidate & StandUpRepublic head Evan McMullin weighs in + Political scientist Rachel Bitecofer tells #StrangeDaysPodcast why the data says Trump has NO CHANCE to win in November.
On one of our nation’s darkest days, I URGE you to listen to one the most important, enthralling interviews ever conducted on #StrangeDaysPodcast between Sarah Kendzior + former CIA Senior Officer Rolf Mowatt-Larssen.
Miss the Impeachment Trial coverage this week? Have no fear, #StrangeDaysPodcast is here with Elie Mystal & Jennifer Taub telling us what to expect after the Senate GOP acquits + polling guru Mark Mellman forecasts the Iowa Caucuses & the Dem field.
How much irreparable harm has Donald Trump done to the Presidency? "Unmaking the Presidency" authors Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes assess the damage. Later, Allan Lichtman, predictor of 9 past elections, tells Strange Days Podcast whether Trump wins again.
Will The Democrats blow the most important election in history? Not if Rick Wilson can help it, as he tells #StrangeDaysPodcast what they must do to stop Trumpocalypse 2.0 + New York Magazine climate change author David Wallace Wells warns of #TheUninhabitableEarth. Buy RUNNING AGAINST THE DEVIL: https://amzn.to/2RxpyWe Buy THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH: https://amzn.to/2RuPZfb
Did Donald Trump order the #Soliemani killing to #WagTheDog? MSNBC Analyst & US Navy combat vet, Malcolm Nance explains the #IranCrisis to #StrangeDaysPodcast + The Atlantic's James and Deborah Fallows take us inside #OurTowns across America!
Happy 2020! For the first #StrangeDaysPodcast of the new year and new decade, hear New York Times Books editor Pamela Paul share secrets of #HowToRaiseAReader and New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer reveals #TheFirstConspiracy, targeting George Washington.
They impeached him, now what? 2019’s last #StrangeDaysPodcast features AEI’s Norm Ornstein + Washington Post’s Greg Sargent analyzing impeachment next steps.
Are we at America's end? The Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky untangles what imperiled the republic & assesses If We Can Keep It & Social Security expert & Sha Na Na legend Jon "Bowzer" Bauman tells the #StrangeDaysPodcast why Social Security Works and why Grease is still the word...
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