ConservaKids, Feat. Alex Pareene

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever wished the kids’ books you read your small children included more references to the “cabal” at Jeffrey Epstein’s island, then we have some news for you! On this episode of FEVER DREAMS, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng delve into the wild and bafflingly lurid world of a new series of conservative children’s books, which include adorable foxes teaching your kids not to embrace communist ice cream. Elsewhere on the episode our hosts interview ‘New Republic’ staff writer Alex Pareene on why Democrats suck at “propaganda,” as compared to their Republican opponents, and how the future of the mainstream GOP was accurately (and depressingly) spelled out for us—among the marchers in Charlottesville in 2017.

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0:00.0	Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns.
0:08.6	Now, picture you, zooming past it all.
0:13.8	Light and breezy.
0:16.2	Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.
0:20.8	Book your train journey via avantiwestcoastcoast.coast.com.
0:25.1	Avanti West Coast.
0:27.1	Feel good travel.
0:43.5	Thank you. Hi, welcome to fever dreams.
0:44.6	My name's Will Summer.
0:49.6	I'm a political reporter at The Daily Beast and the author of an upcoming book on Q&ON for HarperCollins.
0:51.8	And I'm Aswin Tzu-Teng, but please call me Swin.
0:54.3	I'm a senior political reporter at the Daily Beast and co-author of the book Sinking in the Swamp. All right, here on Fever Dreams, we're going to take
0:58.8	you on plunges into the sometimes hilarious and sometimes scary world of the American right
1:03.0	as they continue to influence our politics. Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration,
1:07.3	the energy of these conspiracy theorists, these grifters, and these influencers
1:11.0	is still pushing our mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.
1:16.4	So, Will, I think you have found a new investment opportunity for us and our listeners.
1:21.5	Parody, that's a joke.
1:22.9	Don't invest in this.
1:24.1	Will, tell us a little bit of it.
1:25.5	Well, I wouldn't be so quick to say that, Swin.
1:27.1	Okay, so here's the deal. I mean,
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