I joined a panel on Dublin NewsTalk’s Pat Kenny Show on Saturday for a 19-minute analysis of the Trump camp’s threat to American democracy.
Journalist Marion McKeone, the University of Galway’s Larry Donnelly, and I begin with the issue of excessive wealth and corruption in US politics. While this is far from a recent development, have Trump, his billionaire friends, and cryptocurrency taken this to a new level?
We evaluate Trump’s assault on US Government and whether he has broken Congress and the Supreme Court beyond repair.
I hold on to hope because of good Americans at the grassroots of democracy while maintaining the warning:
In spring 2025 I told you, Pat, that the house is on fire. That was the first time — with threats against millions of immigrants, the attempt to take over the Justice Department, and Trump’s corruption of the FBI — that I said, “This is a wannabe authoritarian regime.”
Now we are there.
