Topic: Canton Ohio

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Flag Gate
Episode 1665 11:29 - 14:50

1665: Flag Gate

Mark Ruffalo and the Eugene Debs Socialist Parallel

Media outlets and actor Mark Ruffalo invoke the history of socialist leader Eugene Debs, who ran for president from a prison cell in 1920. Ruffalo reads from Debs' 1918 Canton, Ohio speech regarding patriotism and the "Wall Street gentry." The hosts note the irony of the left using an anti-war, anti-establishment figure like Debs to frame the current legal proceedings against Trump.