{"podcast":{"title":"Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone","slug":"free-thinking-through-the-fourth-turning-with-sasha-stone-5501501","podcast_index_feed_id":5501501,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/66221.rss","website_url":"https://www.sashastone.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/66221/36b7823df12a5b8d9115f36ad187a369.jpg","author":"Sasha Stone","episode_count":279,"summary":"Analysis of Hollywood's newly adopted ideology destroying storytelling, however good its intentions. Film reviews, essays, perhaps an interview of two.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-21T02:21:00.378485+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-thinking-through-the-fourth-turning-with-sasha-stone-5501501"},"episode":{"title":"There is No Saving the Left","slug":"there-is-no-saving-the-left","published_at":"2026-04-27T05:13:57+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-thinking-through-the-fourth-turning-with-sasha-stone-5501501/there-is-no-saving-the-left","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-thinking-through-the-fourth-turning-with-sasha-stone-5501501","url":"https://www.sashastone.com/p/there-is-no-saving-the-left","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/195572720/93d3e5692e428e804467b87c82c21726.mp3","summary":"I left the Democratic Party in 2020 because I couldn’t take it anymore. I am not sure what triggered my disgust, but all I know is that I could not go along with what the party had become and what I could see playing out every day on social media. I watched everyone I knew, every prominent person of power, justify their dehumanizing rhetoric, all aimed at one man and his supporters. I recoiled in horror then. It felt like ice in my veins, or worse, dark sludge, something like evil. Why are we doing this, I wondered. Why have we abandoned all of our principles of decency and kindness? What of the lawn signs that say “everyone is welcome”? I knew it was wrong. I also knew speaking out about it would be the end of my status online, many of my friendships, and eventually, by 2024, all of my income, as my business was destroyed and my reputation collapsed for the sin of voting for and supporting Donald Trump. Now, we’re at the point on the Left where all the words — the extreme hyperbole—have been used up, and nothing has changed. There was ever only one place left to go, and that was to take up arms and start shooting people. Cole Allen, who is Trump’s third would-be assassin, like Luigi Mangione and Tyler Robinson, is not a madman, not like the shooter who murdered Melissa Hortman. He wasn’t hearing voices. He wasn’t suffering from PTSD. He made a sober and calculating decision to do what so many have been begging “someone” to do ever since Trump won. Here are some TikToks. From Cole Allen’s manifesto: Allen is a gamer, and he talks about his potential assassination as if he’s walking us through one of the first-person shooter games he might livestream. He sees himself as a vigilante out for justice against the world’s greatest evil. How does he come to these conclusions…","meta_description":"I left the Democratic Party in 2020 because I couldn’t take it anymore. I am not sure what triggered my disgust, but all I know is that I could not go alo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1754,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/free-thinking-through-the-fourth-turning-with-sasha-stone-5501501/episodes/there-is-no-saving-the-left/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-thinking-through-the-fourth-turning-with-sasha-stone-5501501/there-is-no-saving-the-left.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}