Any Jackass Can Kick Down a Barn with Jay McKenzie
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
4.7 • 8.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Host Reed Galen is joined by Jay McKenzie, the founder of “Did Nothing Wrong”, a newsletter and podcast that seeks to make sense of the chaotic narratives that threaten to hijack our nation’s discourse and politics. They discuss the MAGA movement’s commitment to cultivating distrust in our nation’s institutions (by political means and otherwise), how the GOP is completely disinterested in governing, and how far-right influencers like Nick Fuentes continue to advance their dangerous narratives. If you’d like to connect with The Lincoln Project, send an email to [email protected].
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| 0:00.0 | Hey gang, it's Reed. Before we get started, I just want to say thank you again for listening, |
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| 0:09.2 | democracy with your friends, your family, and your colleagues. To get more information, |
| 0:14.4 | please go to LincolnProject.us and sign up to be a supporter today. And now on with the show. |
| 0:21.4 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gaelin. Today, I'm joined by Jay McKenzie, |
| 0:35.6 | the founder of the Did Nothing Wrong newsletter and podcast. Did Nothing Wrong seeks to make sense |
| 0:41.6 | of the chaotic narratives that threaten to hijack our nation's discourse and politics. Today, |
| 0:46.4 | he's coming to us from just outside Chattanooga, Tennessee. Jay, welcome to the show. |
| 0:51.2 | Thanks so much for having me. So Jay, first and foremost, tell us a little bit about you. |
| 0:56.2 | So before we started, you said you were for the most part born and raised in Chattanooga live there. |
| 1:00.7 | How did you come to this line of work and how did you come to the title Did Nothing Wrong? |
| 1:06.8 | Well, it was entirely by accident that I started doing this. I paid a lot of attention to the news |
| 1:13.5 | during the 2016 campaign. And I thought, there's no way Trump's going to get elected. |
| 1:18.8 | That just wouldn't happen. We're a civilized country. We wouldn't do that. And then he was elected. |
| 1:24.4 | And pretty much a couple of weeks after the election, I got on Twitter and I decided that |
| 1:29.8 | a country that can elect Trump with all the things that he said and did, there's something |
| 1:34.5 | deeply wrong with it. And I got on Twitter to try and figure out how I could help and how I could |
| 1:41.0 | make a difference and hopefully make sense of all of it. So I started researching, I looked at |
| 1:47.9 | Trump's businesses, I looked at Pax and money coming into political campaigns, I started looking at |
| 1:53.9 | Russian influence operations, all these sorts of things. And eventually, if you post enough |
| 2:00.4 | material and enough material that people don't like on social media, you find some trolls. |
| 2:06.9 | You have a whole bunch of new friends, a lot of new friends. And they are coming out of nowhere, |
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