David Pakman

New York

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“The Wednesday Warning" with David Pakman

3 weeks ago | steveschmidt.substack.com | Steve Schmidt |David Pakman

Thank you to those who joined tonight’s edition of “The Wednesday Warning” with . For those who weren’t able to join, I hope you’ll watch/listen. We covered lots of topics, including RFK Jr., masked federal agents, what Democrats need to say to the American people in this moment, and potential 2028 Democratic candidates. The Warning with Steve Schmidt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Discussion about this video
PREMIUM: "What Can Democrats Do?" with David Pakman

2 months ago | uncomfortableconversations.substack.com | Josh Szeps |David Pakman

The Democratic Party is paralysed. It can't merely offer resistance to Trump. It also needs to offer an alternative to him. But how? Should they oppose his every move, as the likes of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Cory Booker believe?
Pakman: Voters must hold Trump accountable to his economic promises

Jan 27, 2025 | san.com | David Pakman

All right, it is now, once again, the Trump era, and one of the things that I’ve been explaining on my show is that even though I’m a progressive leftist, I want Trump to succeed. Now, what do I mean by that? It’s not that I want Trump personally to succeed. I don’t really care about Trump as an individual, but what I mean is that if the country does better, even if it’s under Trump, it’s better for my fellow Americans, and I do care about that.
Pakman: Tracking economic trends from Biden to Trump

Jan 20, 2025 | san.com | David Pakman

All right, as we transition from the Biden administration to the second Trump administration, one of the things I am committed to doing, and am genuinely interested in doing, is saying, here are the economic indicators and numbers at the end of Joe Biden’s presidency and at the start of Donald Trump’s second term, and let’s actually track and see where things go. Why is this so critical and important? Donald Trump ran for multiple years on inflation and prices are too high.
EDITORIAL: American oligarchy is officially here

Jan 19, 2025 | davidpakman.substack.com | David Pakman

As we stand on the precipice of a second Donald Trump presidency, it's impossible to ignore the looming specter of oligarchy, kleptocracy, and kakistocracy taking root in American politics. If Trump’s first term was a swampy cesspool of corruption and self-dealing, his second term promises something far more dangerous. It won’t just be a government of the rich; it will be one where the ultra-wealthy are not merely influential but in control.
Pakman: Facebook ending fact-checking will deepen social media bias

Jan 13, 2025 | san.com | David Pakman

All right, I want to talk about the magnification of the social media news space as we are now just days away from the Donald Trump second term. We don’t really know what much of social media is going to look like over the next few months, but we are starting to get the impression that it’s going to be far more Trumpy. And there’s a couple of different things going on up. All of the social media platforms other than Tik Tok, are skewed to the right wing Twitter more so than others.
Pakman: Why Trump is unlikely to follow through on key economic promises

Jan 6, 2025 | san.com | David Pakman

Opinion President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial economic agenda includes raising tariffs on Chinese, Mexican and Canadian goods, extending expiring tax cuts, and potentially introducing new tax breaks. Economists have warned that these policies could drive inflation.
How Republicans undermine Social Security's future: Pakman

Dec 30, 2024 | san.com | David Pakman

Are Republicans really going to go for Social Security in this new Trump term? There is a lot to this that I want to talk about with you. Let’s start with just some basic numbers. Then we’ll talk about the willingness, maybe, of the incoming Trump administration to do something about Social Security. So first the numbers, Doge, the Department of government efficiency, Elon Musk, the big Ramaswamy to unelected bureaucrats, by the way, which they love to criticize.
Pakman: We need a Trump opposition akin to the Republican 2020 playbook

Dec 23, 2024 | san.com | David Pakman

All right, listen, this time around, another resistance to Trump is simply not going to cut it. I don’t say this because the first term resistance didn’t succeed in many ways it did, but it’s because Republicans and Maga and trumpists have something much bigger up their sleeve this time around. Let me remind you.
Pakman: Elon Musk budget cuts will devastate GOP voters

Dec 16, 2024 | san.com | David Pakman

It’s time to face a mathematical reality. If the incoming Trump administration really wants to cut the $2.5trillion that they’ve said they want to cut, you either need to cut all discretionary spending, not going to happen, or you need to start cutting from Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. How do we know this? Because of second grade arithmetic, let me explain.