David Pakman

1 week 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?

2 months ago | 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.

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.

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.

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.