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Why Kamala Lost—Plus, Trump Family Doings

On this episode of Start Making Sense, Steve Phillips challeges the conventional wisdom about the election, and Amy Wilentz reviews the latest on the Trump kids and their in-laws.

Jon Wiener

December 11, 2024

Donald Trump is greeted by his family after the third presidential debate on October 19, 2016. (Joe Raedle / Reuters)

Kamala Harris lost not because Democratic voters switched to Trump, Steve Phillips shows, but because of a massive failure of the Democrats to turn out their base.

Also: In a new episode of “The Children’s Hour,” Amy Wilentz reports on “the Rise of the In-Laws”—Ivanka’s and Tiffany’s fathers-in-law—and comments also on the rise of Eric’s wife Lara, and on the latest schemes of Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner.

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Defending the Undocumented, plus Uncovering Hidden Wealth | Start Making Sense
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On this episode of Start Making Sense: Trump’s ‘dictatorship on day one’ will feature executive orders to deport undocumented residents. Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the Center for Immigration Law & Policy at UCLA Law School, will explain the legal strategy to be deployed by the sanctuary states and cities,

Also: Not everything is about Donald Trump. The Geneva Freeport, for example – where it doesn’t matter who is president of the US. The Freeport is a place where the world’s richest people hide art, jewelry, and other wealth from tax officials, creditors, and sometimes spouses. Atossa Araxia Abrahamian has our analysis–her new book is “The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World.”

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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.


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