274: Encore Presentation: A Slow Civil War with Jeff Sharlet

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🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This episode was originally released on April 12, 2023. In this encore presentation, host Reed Galen is joined by journalist and New York Times bestselling author, Jeff Sharlet. Jeff shares scenes from his travels across the United States which exemplify the convergence of MAGA, religion, militias, and fascism. The aftermath of Ashli Babbitt’s death, the “jokes'' from a men’s rights hotel room, a church’s Game of Thrones inspired altar, etc…this is what makes up the condition our nation now faces. Plus, America is now in a new era…the Trumpocene. Be sure to pick up Jeff Sharlet's new book, The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War, wherever fine books are sold. If you’d like to connect with The Lincoln Project, send an email to podcast@lincolnproject.us.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Reid. Before we get started, I just want you to think about this. In just a little over a year, the first American voters will get their ballots in the mail. Think about that. We are now just about a year from Election Day. I know we think that Election Day happens in November, and it does. But American voters across this country in different
0:22.2	states will start receiving their ballots. Some will receive them in early September, some in mid-September,
0:28.6	some in late September. Guys, we're 12 months out. I can't believe it any more than you probably
0:34.3	can. That's why I need you to go to join the union.us and sign up for our
0:40.2	field team to make sure that every last voter in the pro-democracy movement is contacted and gets
0:46.5	out to the polls. And now, on with the show.
1:11.7	Welcome. Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reid Galen. Today, I'm joined by journalist and New York Times best-selling author, Jeff Charlotte. He's a professor of creative writing and the Frederick Sessions Beebe 35 professor in the art of writing at Dartmouth College.
1:13.9	His writing and photography have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times
1:17.6	magazine, GQ, Esquire, and Vanity Fair for which he is a contributing editor.
1:23.1	He's written quite the catalog of books, including his latest title, The Undertow, Scenes from a Slow Civil War,
1:29.1	now available wherever fine books are sold. Jeff, welcome to the show. Hi, Reed. Good to be with you.
1:34.7	So I thought your book was fascinating because when you call it scenes, the experiences you have
1:42.0	and the way you describe them are almost like one or two or three
1:46.7	man plays because they're always in a very unique location with very unique individuals.
1:52.6	There's always an event or something in the background that really sets the scene for what you're
1:59.0	describing.
2:00.2	As we open with the book, the one question I want to have is,
2:03.6	why do you spend so much time with your subjects in the middle of the night?
2:09.1	That's an interesting question.
2:10.7	I think a lot of interesting conversations happened.
2:12.9	And, you know, my last book was called This Brilliant Darkness.
2:16.0	But it was really about night shift, which is where I often find myself working by inclination.
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