Insights, analysis and must reads from CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and the Global Public Square team, compiled by Global Briefing editor Jason Miks.
On Today’s Show
On GPS at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN:
First, Fareed gives his Take on the Republican Party’s push for tax reform. Is the GOP “hoodwinking its supporters, promising them populism and then enacting plutocratic capitalism?”
“Many have argued that Republicans have been able to work this magic trick by dangling social issues in front of working-class voters, who fall for the bait and lose sight of the fact that they are voting against their own interests,” Fareed says.
“But what if people are not being fooled? What if people are actually motivated far more deeply by issues surrounding religion, race and culture than they are by economics? There’s increasing evidence that Trump’s base supports him because it feels a deep emotional, cultural and class affinity for him.”
Then, Fareed hosts a live panel to discuss Friday’s developments in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, the guilty plea by former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, U.S.-Russia ties and more. Joining Fareed will be David Sanger, national security correspondent for the New York Times, Julia Ioffe, a staff writer at The Atlantic, and Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group.
Also on the show: As Republicans push for tax reform, are they missing some important lessons from other countries on how to make things simpler? Fareed speaks with T.R. Reid, author of “A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System.”
Watch Reid discuss how people in other countries file taxes – many in as little as a minute
Plus: President Trump has thrown his support behind Saudi Arabia’s regional strategy, including countering Iran. How are Iranians responding? Fareed is joined by Thomas Erdbrink, Tehran bureau chief for the New York Times, who says that Iranians are feeling increasingly nationalistic.
Watch Erdbrink on growing nationalism in Iran
Also on the show: Fareed speaks with Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, about a recent essay he wrote on why President Trump’s rhetoric on immigration has left him increasingly feeling like he no longer belongs in America.
“I now feel like an outcast, a minority. I’m already a person without a party, having left the GOP after 30 years because of my opposition to Trump and all that he stands for,” Boot wrote in the Washington Post. “Increasingly I feel like a Jew, an immigrant, a Russian — anything but a normal, mainstream American.”