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Julian Zelizer: Power and Punishment

Julian Zelizer: Power and Punishment

To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes · Charlie Sykes

September 23, 202538m 16sExplicit

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Show Notes

Charlie Sykes and historian Julian Zelizer take a hard look at a whirlwind week of political intimidation, weaponized investigations, and the GOP’s muted response. Zelizer explains how public commands to the Justice Department, lawsuits used as tools of intimidation, and attacks on the press fit into a broader pattern that risks normalizing authoritarian tactics. The institutions that once restrained excess still matter, but they will only hold if citizens and leaders insist on enforcing them.

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