Do people want President Donald Trump's deportation crackdown? And is the MAGA agenda actually a leftist one? Just asking questions.
Batya Ungar-Sargon, a columnist at The Free Press, joins the show today to address these questions and spar with us on immigration, tariffs, and wealth inequality. She's a self-described MAGA leftist and the author most recently of Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women.
Sources Referenced:
- The White House's Ghibli-style deportation cartoon
Chapters:
- 00:00:00 Coming up…
- 00:00:30 Introducing Batya Ungar-Sargon
- 00:03:50 Are campus protesters being unfairly targeted for deportation?
- 00:10:01 The legal vs. moral case for deporting pro-Palestine students.
- 00:17:19 Immigration, assimilation, and the limits of free speech
- 00:24:00 J.D. Vance's deportation agenda vs. Trump's actual policy.
- 00:30:33 Are asylum seekers being unjustly deported?
- 00:35:23 How immigration policy affects the working class
- 00:41:10 Do Americans really need multiple jobs to survive?
- 00:44:18 Expanding state power and due process concerns
- 00:48:32 Trump, Nayib Bukele, and deportation to El Salvador's prisons
- 00:54:08 Should Trump defy judges? Constitutional limits and Supreme Court battles
- 01:00:19 What is the MAGA left's economic agenda?
- 01:06:22 Are tariffs and immigration really to blame for middle-class decline?
- 01:14:01 Is the American dream still achievable?
- 01:16:46 What question should more people be asking?
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