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🗓️ 27 June 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Packer dissects the 4 Americas: The Rich Right-Wing Bastards, The Smug Liberal Elites, The Pissed-Off Not-so-Bright Tea Partiers, and The Woke Social Justice Police.
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. |
0:07.4 | Great one today. |
0:09.1 | You know, for a change. |
0:10.9 | The brilliant George Packer is with me, and he's written another great book. |
0:17.3 | George is a National Book Award winner. |
0:21.3 | He wrote one of my favorite books on the war in Iraq, The Assassins Gate. |
0:27.9 | And toward the beginning of COVID, he wrote a pretty scathing article for Atlantic Monthly |
0:36.4 | about how COVID had revealed the weaknesses in our country. |
0:43.0 | And now he's come out with a book, The Last Best Hope, America in Crisis. |
0:50.2 | And, you know, he acknowledges what's very obvious that 2020 was kind of the worst year in this country since, well, I don't know, civil war. |
1:06.1 | I don't know. |
1:07.7 | You got a lump in. |
1:08.7 | There's World War II. |
1:09.7 | There's a depression. |
1:10.8 | But we lost more people than we had There's World War II. There's a depression, but we lost more people |
1:12.7 | than we had since the World War II. 600,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and that's how many |
1:19.6 | have died from COVID. And this was just a complete failure by a United States president, the abdication of any accountability by this |
1:32.8 | guy, Trump. |
1:34.6 | And this is not a book about Trump, per se, but how we, actually more about how we got |
1:42.9 | Trump, how we as a country uh were so ill-equipped |
1:48.0 | uh compared with the rest of the world remember uh we've led the world in deaths from the start |
1:57.4 | of covid through the finish, finish line. |
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