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‘Donald Trump Is FDR’

‘I've never seen in my lifetime a president accomplish so much of what he promised so quickly and so effectively.’

Jamie Weinstein is joined by self-proclaimed “MAGA lefty” Batya Ungar-Sargon to defend Donald Trump’s first 100 days as president and explain how a “lefty” can be MAGA.

The Agenda:
—Batya’s MAGA journey
—MAGA Reaganites vs. MAGA lefties
—Batya on The Fifth Column
Exporting American exceptionalism
—Trump’s first 100 days
Trump’s meme coin
—North Korea style worship
—“Trump sees a tariff like a Swiss army knife.”
—Immigration and due process

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Jamie Weinstein is the host of Monday’s episode of The Dispatch Podcast, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining The Dispatch, he was the host of The Jamie Weinstein Show. He has previously written for Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, and National Review, among other publications, and has appeared as a commentator on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and HBO’s “Real Time w/ Bill Maher.” When Jamie is not hosting, he is spending time with his wife and three rambunctious boys or working on his many entrepreneurial pursuits.

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