The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
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The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Ep 999 The Patron Saint of Corruption
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Episode 999 of The Professional Left takes a detour through the smoke-filled back rooms of mid-century Chicago machine politics to explain something essential about the moment we're living in right now — because it turns out that Mike Royko had the whole Trump era figured out decades before Trump came along, he just called it by a different name. Driftglass and Blue Gal walk through how patronage systems work, why people stay loyal to them, and most importantly, what happens when the patron stops delivering the goods — both the material kind and the emotional kind. The cultural patronage Trump has been selling his base — the endorphin hits, the permission to be cruel, the promise that the right people would be hurt — is starting to curdle in ways that are impossible to ignore. And with rural white voters, MAGA young men, and even the faithful starting to ask the one question every patronage machine dreads — "Where's mine?" — episode 999 sets the table perfectly for what's coming next Thursday.
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