Very Important Message from Meidas Founder MeidasTouch Network Apr 9 By Ben Meiselas Hey MeidasMighty, it’s MeidasTouch Network co-founder Ben Meiselas. I thought it was critical I send you this midweek message with all the uncertainty today caused by the Trump regime. Let’s chat. First, let me give you some positive data points and then let’s move on to discuss what Trump is doing. Thanks to our subscribers, the MeidasTouch Network has expanded our lead over Fox News in digital views by 2 million more views a day (by the way, please subscribe now to help us stay number 1). By next month I expect the MeidasTouch Podcast to have more than triple the monthly downloads of the Joe Rogan podcast and double the monthly views of every other right-wing podcast combined (Remember to add the MeidasTouch Podcast on audio on Apple Podcasts and Spotify). Our views have been fueled by our coverage of the protests, our coverage of the Democratic shadow hearings, and our interviews. Check out my recent interview with Democratic Senator Cory Booker. The MeidasTouch Network continues to expand our coverage in Canada and internationally. Our goal of creating MeidasTouch Network divisions in countries across the world seems like a reality we will achieve in the next 18 months. Thank you to our subscribers here for helping fuel our growth and keeping us number 1. The resistance and opposition to Trump continues to grow. Trump’s shock and awe campaign to defeat all opposition failed. Trump did not capture all levers of government; instead, he and Musk destroyed most of the government. They broke the government, economy, and international alliances with reckless disregard and malice. This brings me to “the why.” Why would Trump do this and destroy the economy? The answer is simple. It’s the authoritarian playbook. Authoritarians like Putin and Kim Jong Un don’t care if their people are happy. In fact, they would prefer their populations be poor and suffering. Economically independent and economically mobile people are harder to subjugate for the authoritarian. What Trump wants to do is force the population to beg him for breadcrumbs and handouts, to have businesses beg him for exemptions to tariffs, and to have foreign nations “kiss his ass.” In his speech last night before the Republican National Congressional Committee Dinner, Trump bragged that nations were “kissing his ass.” That’s what this is all about. His ego. All the pain and suffering Trump has inflicted is based on his ego and desire to rule the population as an authoritarian. So what do we do? We must fight like our lives depend on it. Trump is spiraling sooner than many expected. Each day he gets more desperate. I’ve said before Trump’s demented pathology causes him to quickly compound bad decisions by making worse decisions and covering up those worse decisions with fraud and deceit like a Ponzi schemer. I’ve referred to this Trump presidency as the “Ponzi scheme presidency” or the “rug pull” presidency. Trump’s house of fraudulent cards is unraveling. Unfortunately, we are in for bumpy days ahead. I am not going to pretend that what’s about to unfold today is easy, nor will it be easy what will unfold in the coming weeks. But now more than ever, you need to stay in the fight. You need to try and avoid the urge to give up. Trump’s fascist tendencies are relentless. We need to fight him with relentlessness and persistence. Don’t give up. I’ve got your back. This network has your back. That’s what we built at the MeidasTouch Network and that’s what we are continuing to build. We have the infrastructure and community in the United States and across the world to take the fight to Trump. The corporate news can no longer suppress the truth about Trump since our network gets more views than their networks—and we built this network thanks to subscribers like you. That’s why at the end of the Substack posts, although I sometimes feel awkward doing it, I make these subscriber pushes and ask for you to subscribe if you aren’t already a subscriber. I think it’s critical that the MeidasTouch Network keeps on beating Fox News and CNN and every other news network in views, and that we keep beating Joe Rogan in podcast downloads. I wake up every day and treat this fight as a matter of life or death. I take my coverage of these rapidly unfolding events as a solemn obligation to our audience. I don’t view what I do as a job. I view it as needing to give every ounce of my being and every single moment of the day to fight for democracy. We will keep building and expanding the MeidasTouch Network together. Thanks to you. So please, if you can, subscribe today and help the MeidasTouch Network continue to grow. Please check in on the MeidasTouch YouTube channel or on this Substack for more motivation during the day. Hang in there. We are so grateful for you. Meidas+ is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.