About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of Trump's claims about China stealing the election and the resurgence of repression politics linked to great-power rivalry.

Trump's speech to the nation claiming that China stole the election from him is a farce, and an excuse to use the power of the state against his political enemies. Dr. Van Jackson warned about this in the 2025 book The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy. What's bringing back the repression politics of the Cold War. And what Marco Rubio's 60-nation meeting manufacturing the fake threat of "far-left terrorism" is itself a threat of repression politics.

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