Episode Details

Convicted felon Donald Trump got booed at an NFL game after our euphoric election. So the elites in Congress hit the panic button. This is World War III in America: oligarchy, Big Tech, and Democratic Senators obeying in advance.

Here to help us get back on track is Evgeny Finkel, a historian at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, and the author of Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine and other works on the anatomy of evil. He shares his advice for building an opposition to fascism in the U.S. and what he fears more than a MAGA dictatorship–a civil war.

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Show Notes:

Intent to Destroy Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eugene-finkel/intent-to-destroy/9781541604674/

Why We Must Inherit the Third American Revolution https://avantjournal.com/2024/04/08/why-we-must-inherit-the-third-american-revolution/

CLIP: Trump getting booed at an NFL game in Maryland: https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3m5a7te2sva2q

CLIP: https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3m4y34obdzk2o

CLIP: Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work" https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m5bqhe6mrx26

CLIP: Q: Will you assure House Democrats they'll get a vote on ACA subsidies by a date certain? MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything. https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m4xvxwbikg2h

CLIP: George Carlin – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhqPHQcVeH0

Democrat Aftyn Behn's Chances of Winning GOP Tennessee House Seat—Polls https://www.newsweek.com/democrat-aftyn-behns-chances-of-winning-gop-tennessee-house-seat-polls-11024292

Aftyn Behn (D), Matt Van Epps (R), and four independent candidates are running in the special election for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District https://news.ballotpedia.org/2025/11/06/aftyn-behn-d-matt-van-epps-r-and-four-independent-candidates-are-running-in-the-special-election-for-tennessees-7th-congressional-district/

8 Senators Break Ranks With Democrats and Ad