Political History Podcasts of Forgotten Interest

[EndtheMadnessNow]

If Trump is indicted over Mar-a-Lago shenagians, he won't be the first presidential candidate to be prosecuted by DOJ. As Adam Hochshild, author of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis details on Skullduggery Podcast. That distinction belongs to Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs, 5 time Socialist Party candidate, who was charged, convicted and imprisoned for violating the Espionage Act due to his opposition to World War I. Debs was among the high-profile targets of one of the most ferocious episodes of repression in U.S. history orchestrated by the administration of Woodrow Wilson, with starring roles played by a young J. Edgar Hoover and the U.S. Supreme Court, including of all people, Oliver Wendall Holmes, who wrote the opinion (Schenk v US) upholding the constitutionality of the Espionage Act (before later changing his mind.) But there are a few surprising heroes to the story most notably, a Labor Department official, Louis Post, who challenged Hoover's attempts to deport "radical" immigrants. In another surprise twist, Hochschild discusses the president who commuted (not pardoned) Debs' prison sentence.

Co-host Michael Isikoff w/ Adam Hochschild on SkullDuggery podcast. (listen or download; Adam starts @9:00)

Meanwhile, Trump, is still banging away on his Truth Social arguing that either a) he be declared president, or b) there be a re-vote of the 2020 election...And the "termination" of the Constitution. (depending on how one interprets political language) From Dec 3, 2022:



And from yesterday:



Meanwhile, the right/left will carry out this constant diatribe for another 23 months.