The New Red Scare: Trump's War on the American Left
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Alyson and Breht discuss the Trump administration's campaign against far-left terrorism and its implications for the American left.
In this episode, Alyson and Breht examine the Trump administration's emerging campaign against what it calls "far-left terrorism." We begin with NSPM-7, the presidential directive encouraging federal agencies to investigate not only alleged political violence, but the organizations, funders, media networks, and ideological communities surrounding it. We then look at two distinct examples of this framework in practice: the sweeping Prairieland prosecutions in Texas, where defendants received extraordinarily severe terrorism-related sentences, and the separate crackdown in Minnesota following anti-ICE mobilizations and political unrest. From there, we analyze Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller's international counterterrorism summit, the effort to redirect the machinery of the War on Terror toward the radical left, and the State Department's Cuba document, which portrays socialism, anti-imperialism, Palestine solidarity, and antifascism as parts of a foreign-influenced revolutionary network. Finally, we ask whether the United States has entered a new Red Scare, what may come next, and how left-wing individuals, media outlets, and organizations can protect themselves without abandoning…
People in this episode
Hosts: Alyson, Breht
Topics covered
- Trump administration
- far-left terrorism
- political violence
- Prairieland prosecutions
- anti-ICE mobilizations
- Red Scare
- left-wing protection
Keywords
- Trump
- far-left
- terrorism
- political unrest
- Prairieland prosecutions
- anti-ICE
- Red Scare
- socialism
- anti-imperialism
- Palestine solidarity
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Trump administration, State Department, NSPM-7, Cuba
Places: Texas, Minnesota
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