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BEST OF THE GIST: RNC 2024 Edition

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we replay Mike’s examination of the polarizing effect of fiery political rhetoric is blamed for political violence. And, with political violence on all American minds, we listen back to our 2015 interview with Bryan Burrow who explains what America’s radical underground revolutionaries from the 1970s are up to now. He is the author of Days Of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mike’s Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Mike. It's Saturday. It's the Saturday show. I'm back from the Republican National Convention. A by and large, fairly conventional convention. We're going to replay one from the week and one from the

0:14.7

vaults and the one from the week was I think the first piece piece I filed. Yes, and it was a little

0:20.0

bit about peace. It was about the roots of polarization. I wanted to get into the

0:23.8

Republican psyche. Why are we polarized? There was a variety of explanations, but

0:29.4

well you'll hear and I think this is I'll quote myself from one of the lines in the

0:34.3

piece who is right is always us whose fault is it it's always theirs now this

0:40.0

doesn't mean that we should default to just the unknowable squishiness of relativism

0:46.9

really can be their fault or our fault or someone's fault.

0:50.0

But as I also, to quote myself in the piece, say,

0:53.0

or you might be polarized.

0:55.0

And speaking of violence and politics and polarization,

0:59.0

we go back to the 1970s, but on this show April of 2015 was then that I welcomed author Brian

1:07.4

Borough to talk about the explosive tactics of the political underground that are rarely heard today.

1:16.7

The name of the book was Days of Rage, America's Radical Underground, the FBI and the forgotten

1:22.0

age of revolutionary violence, let's not forget, let's listen. Oh, uh, uh,

1:34.0

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