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Mallen Baker: Faultlines

"Dangerously reasonable" analysis on politics, science, and particularly the bit where they bump into each other. I aim to give an independent, fact-focused, non-ideological take on the issues that matter.

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00:16:27

Gen Z Is ABANDONING Trump

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/25

A remarkable feature of the 2024 presidential election was just how much Gen Z voters swung towards Trump, particularly young men. There's a popular narrative as to why that happened, which right now is the one that best fits the facts - and which becomes all the more intriguing because recent polls have suggested that this is a process that is now starting to reverse itself. It's early days, perhaps, but having won Gen Z, Trump is now losing them. Whether the Democrats can actively win them while

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00:16:40

Why Insane Trump Tariffs Against EU And Apple Will...

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/24

Just when it seemed that things might be stabilising just a bit, Trump posted onto social media and suddenly we're right back into the throes of new trade chaos. A 50% tariff against the European Union. A 25% tariff against Apple iphones that are manufactured in India. The reasoning behind the moves is as fantastical as all the tariff stuff has been so far - so now it's the EU's turn to decide whether to fight or concede, and Apple has to work out what it does with the impossible dilemma it's been

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00:18:50

The Crucial Lessons From Biden's Decline America...

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/23

Books have been landing in recent weeks opening up windows into the behind-the-scenes action around the cognitive decline of US president Joe Biden, and how the messy events of his nomination, and then withdrawal, in the 2024 campaign played out. We're left with a disturbing outcome. We could all see that Biden was not in great shape all the way back to the start of his 2020 election campaign. And yet experts, informed as they were by insiders talking his condition up, failed to believe it. And

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00:19:05

Trump Is CLUELESS On What He Just Did To Himself

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/22

So we had another White House Struggle Session this week, this time with Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa. President Trump's ambush, watched silently by Elon Musk, unloaded a stream of accusations based on social media disinformation that made the United States look, once again, utterly foolish in the direct view of the world. By doing this a second time, and given which country he chose to do it to, Trump has harmed himself and the interests of his country a lot more than he could

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00:15:22

Elon Musk Admits It’s Over – No More Political Money

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/21

We've known Elon Musk was on his way out for several weeks, but yesterday he added the final straw - he said he was going to cut any political spending right down. This is the final end of his political adventure, because it was only his potentially unlimited amounts of cash that gave him leverage over the GOP, and that kept him useful to the Trump team regardless of his personal unpopularity with the public. If that's being ruled out for the future, it gives you some idea of how wounded he is with

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00:15:36

The Truth About Trump and Putin's Big Phone Call

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/20

US President Trump and Russian President Putin held their direct call - the one that was supposed to see Trump pushing Putin into embracing a 30-day ceasefire in the Ukraine war. The outcome seemed not to be much in doubt - it was pretty well known that Putin was not planning to cede to such demands. The only question was whether he could play Trump so well as not to lose his support and have him come out of the call in a rage. On that grounds, the victory seems hands-down one for President Putin

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00:11:47

The UK EU Brexit Reset Deal - Did It Blow Up UK...

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/19

The UK and the EU announced a big post-Brexit trade deal today. For some, it was a common sense shift from the original terms of the Brexit deal to make trade a little easier, and to facilitate much needed defence co-operation in the face of Trump's disruption of European defence realities. For others, it was a total betrayal of Brexit, and the reason why Trump-lite Reform UK's Nigel Farage could end up becoming the next prime minister - albeit not until 2029. So what's the truth? Let's

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00:12:41

Former US Ambassador To Ukraine SLAMS Trump Betrayal

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/18

Bridget Brink was the US Ambassador to Ukraine during the three years post-invasion where the United States was standing relatively firm alongside its allies. Supporting the invaded party, opposing the aggressor. A month ago, she stepped down - and now she has come out with a blistering attack on the Trump Administration's policies towards Ukraine. Siding with Russia. Putting all the pressure on Ukraine. She had served under five presidents, she said, Republican and Democrat, but this now wasn't the

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00:13:06

Trump Ambassador Attacks Canada For Being Mean To...

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/17

So Trump's attempted interference in Canada backfired, and the Liberals' Mark Carney won the recent election. The question is - now what? Can Canada negotiate down those tariffs and establish a relationship with the US that puts Trump's annexing ambitions out of contention? And can it do that while doing what Carney said it must - diversifying its trading base to become less vulnerable to the future whims of the US? Because the Trump team have noticed that ambition, and they're pushing back against

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00:14:44

Trump’s Insane Bid To Put Ex FBI Director In Jail -...

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/16

Every relevant senior member of the Trump cabinet has come out with an attack on former FBI Director James Comey - a truly astonishing exercise in gaslighting to swear that something nobody had previously suggested was the case, is self-evidently the case and it means that a pretty innocent social media post Comey put onto his Instagram feed was really a serious threat against the life of the President. It seems so ridiculous, it must be a prank. But the administration says it is launching an

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00:14:08

Why Trump REALLY Lifted Sanctions On Syria

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/15

President Trump has had perhaps his best week so far of his second term, being hosted by some of the richest countries of the world. He has also been making jaws drop with bold moves, particularly in meeting the new leader of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa, regardless of his recent status as a jihadist, and also announcing that he would be lifting sanctions against Syria, crediting as he did so the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia for the initiative. Even some of Trump's fiercest critics have welcomed the move

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00:16:50

How Putin, China And The World Are Learning How To...

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/14

It used to be that the United States, as the dominant world power, was the most powerful driving force behind world events, for better or for worse. It made mistakes sometimes, but it was a player. Now, with Trump in charge, the world has been learning that it has to manipulate him in order to get what it wants. Through flattery, or offering a deal, or refusing to budge until he inevitably backs down. This has changed the whole dynamic in ways you don't spot immediately. Although all the noise and

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00:11:50

Why Trump’s MAGA Base Is FURIOUS With Him

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/13

We've been taking it as read that Trump's MAGA base would stay unquestioningly loyal to him no matter what. But that support is starting to splinter. One half are noticing the blatant corruption, and they aren't happy because they believed in 'draining the swamp'. The other half are caught in a purity spiral that nobody can survive, and they are most furious this week with RFK Jr's pick of Casey Means for Surgeon General. It's early days, but it gives us a preview of how it may all start to

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00:16:51

How Trump's Lying Is Making The Whole World Stupid

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/12

Yes, yes, we all know Trump lies - so what? Well, the point is that since the US is now bullying the entire world on trade, as well as using its leverage over various countries in other ways - this has changed the entire dynamic. World leaders are starting to repeat Trump's lies back to him. They are starting to attest in public that his (highly unlikely) telling of major events is in fact accurate. In other words, his fantasy reality is starting to seriously infect what leading players tell us

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00:13:12

Why Trump Is Already Panicking About The Midterms

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/11

Trump only just completed his first hundred days, so it's a bit early to be thinking about it all ending, right? Except, by all reports, Trump is already obsessed about the looming midterm elections. Why? Because if he really HAS accepted that he can't run for a third term, which is what he says, then he sure wants to be able to make the most of his remaining full four years. The idea of reaching the half way point and then losing the House and / or the Senate, and having all the inquiries and

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00:11:39

Why Trump LOST To China Even Before Talks Started

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/10

Having created a major impasse between the US and China with mutual tariff obliteration, Trump has been trying to work out how the US can extract itself from at least some of the self-inflicted harm. Since neither leader will call the other, second level executives from each side are meeting in Switzerland this weekend to conduct exploratory pre-negotiations. But Trump has already signalled he would be inclined to reduce tariffs to half the current amount - a visible sign of wavering that will

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00:11:48

US Caught Spying On Greenland To Prepare For Takeover

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/09

Trump may have (reluctantly) accepted that Canada is not going to fall into his embrace, but he is going full speed ahead in his quest to get Greenland. This was evident when he sent JD Vance to visit there, and it was evident this week when the Wall Street Journal revealed that US spies have been tasked with covert surveillance on the island. Their mission - to sniff out the independence movement and how easy it would be to influence / win over, and to find any and all individuals whose views align

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00:10:38

How Trump Bullied Tariffed Nations To Accept Musk’s...

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/08

On Trump's so-called 'Liberation Day', a number of countries suddenly discovered that they were to be whacked with massive tariffs from the United States - including some of the poorest countries in the world. They quickly set about trying to win favour with the Trump regime, to get to negotiate their way out of a hole they'd been thrust into for no fault of their own. Curiously, for a number of them this started with granting Elon Musk's business SpaceX with a licence to run its Starlink satellite

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00:17:12

Why Trump Will Fail — But What Comes After Will Be Worse

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/07

Whether in his stated terms, the policy changes he aims to make, or in the Project 2025 actions he's taking to bring in an autocratic system to the US, there are a number of reasons why President Trump is almost sure to fail. Yes, he can do damage in the mean time, but he won't succeed. The real challenge will be what comes afterwards - either the next president or the one after that if Republicans lose the subsequent election. Because there is now a proven playbook for how those guardrails can be

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00:16:45

The Trump-Style Farage Revolution Coming To The UK?

Mallen Baker: Faultlines ·

2025/05/06

In elections in Canada and Australia, we saw figures who had been even lightly associated with Donald Trump's MAGA movement losing, whereas before Trump had returned to office, they had been leading. But in the UK, Nigel Farage's Reform UK did the exact opposite - dominating the local elections and Parliamentary by-election. His aim is to break the two-party system, and to get himself installed as prime minister. Where his party has taken over councils, their very first statements have all been

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