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This Is How Trump and MAGA Are Distorting Truth and Reality For Their Fascist Agenda

Veteran journalist and Mother Jones D.C. Bureau Chief David Corn joins The Left Hook to discuss how Trump's lies are a unique threat and must be confronted forcefully to save our democracy.
Trump relentlessly defends use of altered Dorian map

All is lost.

Liberal anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned by Haitian immigrants who are eating the dogs and eating the cats.    

The Deep State is controlling weather systems to destroy Florida and MAGA voters who don’t believe in human activity causing climate change but do believe that Jews are unleashing space lasers. Venezuelan gangs from shit hole countries are taking over America and raping everyone in sight, but a sexual predator and criminal born with a silver spoon is the man to clean the streets.

We can go on and on with the racist, hateful, fantastical conspiracies that have been mainstreamed by Trump, the GOP and their right-wing media arm but I’ll run out of space and time.

Instead, I invited journalist David Corn, author of the excellent Our Land newsletter, to discuss his latest piece in which he outlines how Trump has completely subverted reality over the past 9 years and created a dystopian Earth-3 for his voters. This isn’t the old GOP playbook, which was always eacist, but a new, terrifying terrain for American politics that hearkens back to the rise of fascism in Europe. What are the consequences and how do we move forward?

Grab a chai and give us a listen!

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