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Today on the program, the panel discusses the politics of tragedy.

We attempt to define fascism, and we all share something that gives us hope in the 2018

elections.

Our panel today.

Current Affairs social media editor Vanessa A.B.

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Current Affairs contributing editor, Breonna Joy Gray.

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Current Affairs Finance editor, Sparky Abraham. Hello.

And the editor-in-chief himself, Nathan, Jay Robinson. Hello there. I'm your host, Pete Davis.

We begin tonight with segment one, practical tactical. In the recurring segment, practical,

we discuss different tactics and strategies being used in the political fights of the late 2010s and whether we think they are good, useful, moral, and effective.

This week's topic, the politics of tragedy. It has been an awful month in America, a synagogue

terrorized in Pittsburgh, assassination attempts against a dozen public figures, a racist

killing in Kentucky. And almost ritualistically, we have the political follow-up to each

tragedy, a call for thoughts and prayers, a

counter-call against thoughts and prayers, a call to not politicize the tragedy, a counter-call

to politicize the tragedy more, a story about mental health, a story about bigotry,

a call for denunciation, a failed denunciation, and on and on, and on. How should we talk and think about this ritual?

What is the proper response, the political, but also the human response when something awful

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