Being an American right now is a wild ride. Every day brings a new controversy, breathless media narratives, and the same loud voices rushing in to score political points. Then another Truth Social post drops and the circus moves on. But all that noise is drowning out the actual story. On her new podcast Runaway Country, veteran journalist Alex Wagner talks to the voices at the center of the headlines: from the fringes of the resistance, to the marrow of MAGA, to the many people who’ve found ...
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This week it's just me, talking to you.
This month has seen a moral panic be stoked by nefarious right-wing forces, intent on taking down members of the Green Party.
In this episode, I put all the pieces together. A right-wing echo chamber, the Deputy Prime Minister, a moral panic, and what happens next and what to do next.
It's shorter than usual, and there's only one joke - at the end - but it was important to have this one out there.
Our theme music this season is Virginia Liston's "Evil Minded Blues", recorded 99 years ago in Chicago.
No A.I was used in the production of this episode.
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