Episode description

Author and professor Jared Yates Sexton joins Lindsay to dissect the way President Donald Trump’s brand of cognitive dissonance and unreality is empowering right-wing extremism across the United States, and how he harnessed those dark cultural and political forces to take the White House.

Recommended Reading: "A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof," by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah for GQ, August 2017

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