The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Ep 1037: Money Moves

Episode 1037 watches the media machinery spin up the moment Democrats win big: the same pundits who called Trump’s narrow Electoral College win a “mandate” now insist a h

Ep 1036: What's Next?

Episode 1036 is a policy deep dive into the “Fighting for Illinois: Day One Agenda,” the roughly 75-page, 200-item to-do list Governor JB Pritzker handed to the incoming

Ep 1035: Gradually, Then Suddenly

Episode 1035 celebrates a historic Democratic sweep in the midterms, from a 54-seat Senate majority to flipped governorships and state legislatures across the country, in

Ep 1034: Polling For Dollars

NOTE:  Professional Left Podcast is off until November 5.  Instead, Driftglass will be on Hal Sparks AND The Brad Cast this week on Wednesday October 28, and both Driftgl

Ep 1033: Brush Up Your Shakespeare

Trigger Warning:  This episode quotes Dick Durbin's Senate floor speech from 2005, outlining details of the torture of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Episode 1033 exp

Ep 1032: Here Come 'The Independents'

Episode 1032 traces Trump’s catastrophic second term, from broken retribution promises to an unwinnable war to a lawsuit he’s too busy campaigning to show up for, proving

Ep 1031: The Pain In Your Brain Is Mainly? Trump's Insane

Episode 1031 coins “the Tribe That Rubs Shit In Their Hair” to explain why Republican candidates thrive inside their media cave but collapse the moment they face real que

Ep 1030: Rolling Out The Trump-Off Machine

Episode 1030 catches Marjorie Taylor Greene mid-rehabilitation tour, exposing how her media-friendly break with Trump is laying the groundwork for a “Trump Off Machine” t

Ep 1029: Elois And Morlocks and MAGAs, Oh My!

Episode 1029 uses H.G. Wells’ Eloi and Morlocks from “The Time Machine” to explain how the Republican intellectual class spent decades designing policy in comfortable thi

Ep 1028: Here Come The Bribes!

Episode 1028: We open with a surprising local story: former Illinois House GOP leader Jim Durkin endorsing Democrat JB Pritzker over Republican Darren Bailey, exposing de

Ep 1027: Fair Weather Fiends

Episode 1027 tracks the widening cracks in MAGA's coalition as elite Conservatives and Republican officeholders begin quietly distancing themselves from Trump while

They Won't Say The 'R' Word? (Republican)

Episode 1026 marks the 18th anniversary of the 2008 financial crash by pointing out MAGA voters' selective amnesia about who was president when, then pivots to a Spr

Ep 1025: Panic At The Grift Shop

Episode 1025 opens with a longer off-the-cuff discussion of Mehmet Oz stripping people from Obamacare and the GLP-1 "bridge" program from Medicare, both moves that seem d

Ep 1024: The Magic Word

Republicans are betting the midterms on rewriting recent history. Driftglass and Blue Gal compare Trump's 32% approval to Bush's nearly identical 34% on his way

Ep 1023: Life During Wartime?

Episode 1023 tracks how Republicans keep telling us who they are, from Darren Bailey embracing young-earth creationism to Trump calling Democrats "the enemy from within"

Ep 1022: The Hearts of Men

Episode 1022 asks what history's hardest lessons — Reconstruction's collapse, the Allies' insistence on unconditional German surrender — have to teach abou

Ep 1021: The Coal Ash Of Politics

Episode 1021 exposes a $6 million Republican ad campaign that manipulated grieving parents of murder victims into unknowingly slandering North Carolina Senate candidate R

Ep 1020: Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

Episode 1020 opens with a deep dive into the Snoopy vs. the Red Baron novelty songs — where continuity gets rewritten and enemies become "friends" who never have to answe

Ep 1019: Where's The Beef?

Episode 1019 asks the question rarely posed — "Is our Republicans learning?" — and finds them relearning the exact same 2006 playbook: distance yourself from an unpopular

Ep 1018 Meet Dem Candidate Dr. Cinde Wirth (IN-06)

Episode 1018 features Driftglass in conversation with Dr. Cinde Wirth, the Democrat running to flip Indiana's 6th Congressional District. A seventh-generation Bartho