This is the audio podcast version of a posting made to my Medium.com blog called “UnSafe Thoughts” on March 8 under the same title as this podcast. Journalist and author Matt Taibbi saw fit to re-tweet the publication announcement of it publication to his Twitter feed. What follows is a TED talk of sorts on the souring political climate within and without the Democratic Party. As with my previous podcast on Mike Bloomberg’s corporate raid on the Democratic Party, my worry concerns the fate of the progressive and liberal wing of the party and its allied movements and organizations, especially at the hands of resolutely hostile mainstream media organizations. I am Roddey Reid, Professor Emeritus of the University of California, San Diego, and author of the recent book titled, “Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Citizen’s Handbook for the Trump Era and Beyond.”