Authoritarian Predisposition and Desire for Order

-- On the Show

-- Lara Trump and allies aggressively spin Donald Trump's rambling Davos appearance as brilliance to preempt and smother growing public concern about his cognitive decline

-- A reporter exposes Donald Trump's incoherent foreign policy by forcing him to confront contradictions he cannot explain about Vladimir Putin, Greenland, and his so-called peace initiatives

-- A fast-growing measles outbreak driven overwhelmingly by unvaccinated populations highlights the real-world consequences of Donald Trump's long-standing flirtation with anti-vaccine rhetoric

-- Polling shows most Americans feel the country is out of control, but the meaning of that chaos diverges in ways that ultimately reinforce authoritarian politics

-- As Donald Trump escalates tariffs and territorial threats, U.S. allies quietly hedge, sign new trade deals, and build long-term strategies designed to function without American reliability

-- A Fox News guest accidentally concedes that markets would benefit if courts restrained Donald Trump's tariff powers, revealing how unpredictability rather than policy substance drives economic damage

-- The Friday Feedback segment

-- On the Bonus Show: Sean Hannity says paying Greenlanders $100K each for the territory is a "no-brainer," a Minnesota economic blackout takes place to protest ICE, and much more...

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