Batya Ungar-Sargon: The Case for MAGA Leftism
Do people want President Donald Trump’s deportation crackdown? And is the MAGA agenda actually a leftist one? Just asking questions.
Batya Ungar-Sargon, a columnist at The Free Press, joins the show today to address these questions and spar with us on immigration, tariffs, and wealth inequality. She’s a self-described MAGA leftist and the author most recently of Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women.
Sources Referenced:
- The White House‘s Ghibli-style deportation cartoon
https://t.co/PVdINmsHXs pic.twitter.com/Bw5YUCI2xL
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 27, 2025
- Nayib Bukele on X
Oopsie…
Too late ???? pic.twitter.com/nDHL6deLJq
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) March 16, 2025
The U.S. is facing a judicial coup.
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) March 19, 2025
Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).
The United States will pay a very low fee for them,… pic.twitter.com/tfsi8cgpD6
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) March 16, 2025
- Text of the Alien Enemies Act
- Pew Research: “How Americans View the Situation at the U.S.-Mexico Border, Its Causes and Consequences“
- U.S. government 20th century revenue history with charts
- Pew Research: “For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades“
- American Enterprise Institute: Prices changes in U.S. consumer goods and services, January 2000 to June 2022
- Batya Ungar-Sargon on Bil
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