No Mercy / No Malice: Resistance Infrastructure

Megan Rapinoe here. This week on a touch more, Gotham FC's Rose Lavelle joins us to talk about FIFA's very first champions cup, her incredible year of wins, and some of her greatest pranks of all time, unfortunately, on yours truly. Plus, with the WNBA's CBA negotiations still stalled, I gotta ask the question, is it time to worry? Check out the latest episode of the Touch More wherever you get your podcast and on YouTube. Why have the ICE operations in Minneapolis struck a nerve unlike anything else in the Trump era? It's really important to understand that this is a radical administration. It is not a conservative administration. I'm Preet Bharara. In this week, Pulitzer Prize winning historian and Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum joins me to unpack what's happening in Minneapolis and why she argues this moment reflects a radical governing project, not traditional conservatism. The episode is out now. Search and follow Stay Tuned with Preet wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Scott Galloway, and this is No Mercy, No Malice. Political parties don't build movements, people do. We build resist and unsubscribe to serve as infrastructure for America's pro democracy movement. Resistance infrastructure, as read by George Hahn. I've struggled my whole life to discern the difference between being right versus effective. Over the past decade, The US has been on a slow burn to fascism. The best description I've seen of America's current political landscape came from David Frum. If progressives won't enforce the border, fascists will. We are squarely in the fascist part of the program. Now that it's happened, to borrow from Sinclair Lewis, being right isn't enough. We need to be effective. The question isn't what to say or who to vote for, but what to build. A, resistance infrastructure. Congress has the power to rein in ice, restore the rule of law, and unwind authoritarianism in America. But to paraphrase a quote popular with self help gurus and motivational speakers, Congress isn't coming to save you. Last year's government shutdown over health care didn't result in a solution, but the assignment of blame. Democrats leveraged the recent partial government shutdown to negotiate for guardrails on America's Gestapo. Good. But banning federal agents from wearing masks and ordering independent investigations into the murders of American citizens are empty wins if the Trump administration is responsible for enforcing those policies. In addition, without true structural change, d gerrymandering, reversing Citizens United, installing term limits, we'll continue to endure a bipolar America. Democrats, playing by a rule book that's been incinerated, come across as neutered and voiceless. Meanwhile, Republicans are Jekyll and Hyde. In private, they say Trump is a threat to American democracy. In public, they're sycophants, praising the president no matter what he says or does. The result, Congress is America's answer to the Russian Duma, I e, nominally important, but functionally irrelevant. When I interviewed historian Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny, on my podcast at the January, he said …