Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Navigating the chaos of today’s politics can be overwhelming —this show helps make sense of it all. In about 30 minutes each week, host Bella Goode breaks down the players, policies, and threats facing democracy — in plain language and straight talk. Your crash course in today’s politics
Podcasting since 2025 • 66 episodes
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Latest Episodes
White Supremacy’s Ties to Project 2025 and Modern Tactics: When ideology becomes policy
In Episode 5 of Season 2 of Surviving Trump, host Bella Goode connects the long history of white supremacy to its modern political expression: Project 2025. This episode closes the foundation series by showing how ideas that once lived in rheto...
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White Supremacy Is Nothing New: How an old hierarchy keeps finding new language, from slave codes to Project 2025
In Episode 4 of Season 2 of Surviving Trump, host Bella Goode traces a straight line through American history to show that white supremacy did not reappear under Donald Trump—it adapted.From the first slave codes in colonial Virginia to ...
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Demographic Reality: The Numbers Behind the Fear
In Episode 3 of Season 2 of Surviving Trump, host Bella Goode examines the demographic data underneath the fear driving Trump’s second-term agenda and Project 2025. The question is straightforward: is the panic about demographic cha...
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The Psychology of Fear: Status Threat, Symbolic Threat, and How MAGA Became an Identity Movement
Episode SummaryIn Episode 2 of Season 2 of Surviving Trump, host Bella Goode examines the psychology driving Trump’s second-term agenda and Project 2025. This episode explains why fear — not economic hardship — is the for...
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Fan Mail
Hi, Bella! I just met you at the Bernie rally in SLC, I’m Brittni, the teacher that had the referendum table nearby. I shared this with my mother in law in Wyoming and we are both here to listen! Keep up the great work in Steamboat!
Morgan, Utah