The individual responsible for combating violent extremism in America is a 22-year-old ex-gardener and grocery store assistant with zero experience in counter-terrorism or national security. Say hello to Thomas Fugate, who interned at the Heritage Foundation and was a former Trump campaign worker.
The man responsible for overseeing our nation’s armed forces, a budget of nearly $1 trillion, and serving as principal advisor to the President on defense policy is a former Fox host with a troubling record of alcoholism and sexual assault allegations. Say hello to Pete Hegseth, whom no one wants to work for due to his incompetence and inexperience.
Our director of Health and Human Services is RFK Jr., a conspiratorial crank with zero medical experience, who just announced he will replace every qualified member of a CDC advisory committee on vaccines with his team of anti-vaxx freaks. During a time of preventable measles outbreaks and the bird flu, what could go wrong?
Meanwhile, planes are going down in America, while the prices of groceries are going up. Critical departments are being defunded and destroyed, but the broligarchy is getting lucrative contracts and business opportunities through privatization. Safety and regulations are being gutted, but Musk and Palantir are gaining unfettered access to our private data. People aren’t spending their tourist dollars in America, but that’s seen as a positive to white nationalists like Stephen Miller, who are perfectly fine kicking out all brown and Black brilliance that can and does make this country great.
While our country is being destroyed by the world’s dumbest people, Donald Trump and his friends are making millions off of crypto and quid pro quo grifts and abusing their power to crush their alleged critics and enemies. The most extreme example can be seen on our TV screens as the National Guard and Marines face off against peaceful protestors in LA.
Norm Ornstein, American political scientist, an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and co-host of the podcast “Words Matter,” has coined a new term for Trump’s regime of chaos, cruelty, and corruption: The Nihilocracy.
He joins me to discuss how MAGA is even more extreme and self-destructive than other right-wing movements across the globe and what we can do to stand up to this increasingly violent regime of nihilists.
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