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Bukele’s official popularity ratings are still soaring and the other shoe has maybe yet to drop. He has already consolidated power to an unprecedented degree in the country. He has purged the judiciary illegally. He has rewritten the Constitution allowing for a second term. He's now in his second term, will he go for a third? What else will he do to maintain that grip on power? Once authoritarians get a taste for it, they're often willing to go to great lengths to keep a hold of it.

John Washington joins us to discuss his recent piece in the New York Review of Books, "The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag." An all new "Rotten History" and "The Moment of Truth" segments follow the interview.

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Posted by Alexander Jerri
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Elon Musk, a hollow husk

Sits on his mountain on Mars

Surveying his miles and miles of loneliness

Stonkified under the stars

from Granny Desolation’s Pretty Songs Of This Living Hell

 

Jun 17