You are listening to another no fair remembering stuff, the Tuesday edition of the Professional Left Podcast,

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And it's not safe for work.

And it's not safe for work. And the working title for today's episode is Deplorables and the fever.

We're going to look at one notable moment from the 2016 presidential campaign that the meatheads still bitterly cling to like they cling to their guns and their Bible.

You see what I did there, Blue Gow?

I see what you did there, Drift Glass.

Yeah, yeah.

We're going to do one more important thing. The thing that's the ongoing mission of the professional left,

which is also the thing that still makes liberals media pariahs, I think.

We're going to contextualize Hillary Clinton's deplorables moment.

We're going to talk about the larger trajectory of events during which that

moment comes and why it completely freaked out the pundits and those very serious centrist's and

elite conservative influencers that you see on television. This is before Biden and before Trump and even before Obama.

Before podcasting, when we started podcasting in 2010, Dr. Class, before that we were bloggers.

Yep.

And it's funny because we succeeded in podcasting in terms of consistency and getting an episode out and having a

consistent message and not running out of content.

Two episodes out.

And not getting burnt out by it and so forth.

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