Daniel Drezner: Baseball, Billionaires and the Breakdown of the GOP
Daniel Drezner: Baseball, Billionaires and the Breakdown of the GOP  
Podcast: To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes
Published On: Tue Nov 04 2025
Description: Charlie Sykes is joined by political scientist Daniel Drezner for a wide-ranging conversation that begins with baseball’s most thrilling World Series in years and ends with America’s political curveballs. They unpack Trump’s Great Gatsby–style party amid a government shutdown, the pardoning of a crypto billionaire, and the GOP’s flirtation with extremist rhetoric. Along the way, they tackle corruption, creeping authoritarianism, and the vanishing line between populism and privilege in Trump’s second term. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.