“The first episode forcefully sets the stage for what I hope will be a journey through the last half century to help explain how a modern, thoughtful Conservative movement could devolve into a radical, conspiratorial, fact-less cult of personality hurtling towards an embrace of authoritarian rule. How can we explain reasonable, educated people raised in a wealthy, modern representative republic become enamored of dictators in N. Korea, Hungary, Russia, Turkey, Brazil and the Philippines?
Why can’t we at least agree on basic truths like the existence of climate change, that racism exists, that all humans deserve basic rights and opportunities?
We need to understand these things and remedy them or a slide to strong-man fascism could become an alternative.
Thank you, JM, for being a light in the darkness”
Finnegan the Irish Wonder Cat via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/08/21