COUNTERPOINT RADIO, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 – 9:30 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

1) Steven Hassan, a mental health professional, author, and one of the nations foremost deprogrammers who's helped people leave destructive cults, talks about the new edition of his book, "The Cult of Trump," and the impact Donald Trump's election victory will have on the president-elect himself, his followers, and his MAGA movement's attack on U.S. democratic institutions.

2) Branko Marcetic, a Jacobin magazine staff writer and author of "Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden," who examines why Vice President Kamala Harris lost the election to twice impeached, convicted felon and coup plotting insurrectionist Donald Trump, with a focus on the Democrat's failure to speak to the economic concerns that were by far voters’ leading motivation for choosing a candidate on Election Day.

3) Victor Pickard, C. Edwin Baker professor of media policy and political economy, and co-director at the Media, Inequality & Change Center at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, assesses corporate media's coverage of the 2024 election, with a focus on the decline of legacy media outlets i.e. newspapers and cable TV news, the growing strength, reach and influence of rightwing "Bro" social media and podcast sphere, and the lack of funding support to develop a progressive counterpart and alternative.

4) Dulce Guzmán, Executive Director of Alianza Americas talks about her group’s recent call for justice and unity after Donald Trump’s election victory, and nationwide preparations being made to resist Trump's campaign pledge to deport 11+ million immigrants living in the U.S.

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