The Tony Michaels Podcast
The Tony Michaels Podcast is no longer publishing new episodes. Regular publication ended in July 2026, and this feed remains online as an archive of more than 1,100 episodes about American politics, constitutional accountability, concentrated power, democracy and working people.
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The Tony Michaels Podcast
Trump’s Iran War EXPOSES the Danger of Concentrated Power | TMP #1049
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Trump’s Iran war is not just a foreign-policy crisis. It is a constitutional warning.
The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war and names the president commander-in-chief. Those are not the same thing. A commander directs a war. A republic decides whether to enter one.
But once again, the president acted first, Congress reacted late, and the American people are left with the danger, the precedent, and the bill.
In today’s opening argument, Tony Michaels breaks down how concentrated power works in real time: the White House creates the crisis, Congress debates after the fact, dissent gets framed as weakness, and working people pay the price at the pump, the grocery store, and through the rising costs of war.
This is bigger than Trump. This is bigger than Iran. This is about whether America still has a republic that decides before war, or an empire that debates after the bombs fall.
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