# "Our Democracy Cannot Survive a Presidency for Sale" Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870/our-democracy-cannot-survive-a-presidency-for-sale Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870/our-democracy-cannot-survive-a-presidency-for-sale.md Podcast: [To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870) Published: 2026-07-14T09:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/to-the-contrary/episodes/6a555efe75790d5f01859481 Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/67a407e5340a5590cd2953ad/e/6a555efe75790d5f01859481/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870/episodes/our-democracy-cannot-survive-a-presidency-for-sale Duration seconds: 2847 ## Resource Justin Wolfers is a professor of economics at the University of Michigan and author of the Platypus Economics Substack. In this episode, he joins Charlie to discuss the economic and political implications of current global events, AI advancements, and Trump's corruption.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870/episodes/our-democracy-cannot-survive-a-presidency-for-sale/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/to-the-contrary-with-charlie-sykes-7201870/our-democracy-cannot-survive-a-presidency-for-sale.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.