Examining Trump's 2024 Agenda: "This is How We Move Away From a Democracy" | Pivot

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Released

July 12, 2024

Duration

9m

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Pivot

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss the GOP's 2024 platform and Project 2025 — and what both reveal about a potential Trump second term. Plus, the winners and losers in Big Tech, if Trump follows through on his plans and threats. #pivot #podcast #trump

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Kara Swisher

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• Scott Galloway

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Pivot, featuring Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway, Examining Trump's 2024 Agenda: "This is How We Move Away From a Democracy" | Pivot explores trump’s 2024 Agenda: Normalized Autocracy Disguised as Policy Pivot Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway dissect the GOP’s 2024 platform and Project 2025 as a strategic softening of rhetoric that masks an aggressively illiberal agenda. They argue Trump appears more disciplined and “on message,” particularly around abortion and same-sex marriage, while allies prepare sweeping changes to executive power, federal agencies, and civil liberties. The conversation highlights the risks to democratic norms, including threats to weaponize government against political enemies, the erosion of reproductive rights, and a laissez-faire approach to tech regulation tailored to figures like Elon Musk. Both hosts frame these developments as concrete steps away from democracy toward autocracy, warning that dismissing them as “too crazy to happen” is dangerously naive.

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