Polite Conversations is part of a progressive independent Canadian podcast community Check out Harbinger Media at Harbingermedianetwork.com Journalist and author of ‘To Catch a Fascist’ Christopher Mathias joins me to discuss the state of the American far right.We talk about what laid the groundwork for these political conditions, we compare Trump 1.0 & 2.0… and we also discuss the role that mainstream media & the Democrats have played in the rising tide of American fasci...
Polite Conversations is part of a progressive independent Canadian podcast community Check out Harbinger Media at Harbingermedianetwork.com
Journalist and author of ‘To Catch a Fascist’ Christopher Mathias joins me to discuss the state of the American far right.
We talk about what laid the groundwork for these political conditions, we compare Trump 1.0 & 2.0… and we also discuss the role that mainstream media & the Democrats have played in the rising tide of American fascism. All that and more on this episode of The Global Far Right.
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Find the rest of the Global Far Right miniseries here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/40h4VTDTEEpqWHOuH4uDLI?si=13i_lmBhQzWQNbYkm3YzUw&utm_source=copy-link&pi=g41RqjyCRaSV-
Find Christopher’s book ‘To Catch a Fascist’ here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767
Politico story on pro-Trump troll ‘Microchip’s’ anti-antifa petition https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/24/antifa-white-house-petition-trump-troll-241990
Christopher Mathias’ 2018 story covering the extreme nature of Steve King’s views https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-supremacists-running-for-office-2018_n_5a7da926e4b0c6726e1285c1
FIRE receives Koch funding https://bsky.app/profile/nicemangos.bsky.social/post/3mrnj2ityas2n
The man who headed Trump’s invasions of US cities (Bovino) joined the US and European far right in Portugal to preach “remigration”—a plan to expel all minorities and immigrants.
https://www.wired.com/story/greg-bovino-was-the-star-at-a-european-remigration-conference/
After teasing a presidential bid, Greg Bovino joined a white nationalist’s podcast
https://www.ms.now/news/greg-bovino-white-nationalist-podcast-kevin-deanna
From my miniseries on Sam Harris [Woking Up]:
Ep 1 focuses on his views on race and racism in policing https://open.spotify.com/episode/0v1VYmWKx6dgT5GEdL2OpK?si=JyGf6zQESsaWrtcLXPXllQ&utm_source=copy-link
Ep 4 of Woking Up discusses Sam Harris’ post Jan 6 bothsidesing, and racism denial https://open.spotify.com/episode/420oTb5Eh7GVjRjGnJY5fA?si=VskaAYgfQp2FQpmorOBPrA&utm_source=copy-link
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