MAGA Media Turns on Trump (feat. David Pakman)
4/19/20261 hr 11 min
Political commentator David Pakman joins the show to talk with Dan about the war brewing on the right between Trump and the MAGA influencers who once supported him. The two discuss whether this MAGA revolt is actually real, Trump's announcement that the Strait of Hormuz has reopened, and whether the White House's pivot back to the economy is their best message to win the midterms. Then, Dan asks David how the media ecosystem has changed over his career — and what it'll take for Democrats to build a media ecosystem that rivals the one built by the right.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
There's a new book that I think is particularly timely. It's called Control: Why Big Giving Falls Short. Author Glenn Galich offers a rare insider view exposing why billionaire and millionaire donors move so slowly while communities battle urgent crises. In Control: Why Big Giving Falls Short, Galich reveals how our philanthropic system and culture encourage excessive donor control and keep over $2 trillion from reaching communities. By prioritizing wealthy donor interests, power, and control, this system doesn't simply slow social progress, it structurally prevents it.
Speaker 10:29
This is a weird world where you have all these billionaires who sign, like, giving pledges- Mm-hmm ... and talk about all the money they give away and their foundations, and I feel like people didn't really think about whether they had ulterior motives for a very long time and just kind of, like, celebrated them. And then when you really dig into the details, they're kind of controlling a lot of things.
Speaker 00:45
Yeah, it's one of the reason we have a, a progressive taxation system in the country- Yeah [laughs] ... and, uh, don't rely just on, uh, billionaire philanthropy.
Speaker 10:51
Maybe we should tax these people.
Speaker 00:51
But I'm sure Galich gets into that in the book. If you care about how extreme wealth shapes our society and how to fix it, this is the book to read. Order your copy of Control: Why Big Giving Falls Short by Glenn Galich from your favorite indie bookstore. That's Control: Why Big Giving Falls Short, out now.
Speaker 21:06
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