Episode 4: Down the Rabbit Hole
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Yes, the Donald, this score. |
| 0:07.0 | No, this score. Oh, no. Oh, no. I go. kissing her. God bless the United States of anxiety anxiety anxiety anxiety Anxiety. Anxiety. Anxiety. |
| 0:44.0 | Anxiety. |
| 0:45.0 | Anxiety. Anxiety. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Kai Wright and this is the United States of Anxiety, a podcast from the Nation magazine |
| 0:56.6 | in WNYC studios. |
| 0:58.8 | And this week we have to pause and deal with the disturbing places the Trump campaign has taken us. |
| 1:04.9 | So let me just be clear. |
| 1:05.9 | We're reporting some very ugly but very real stuff in this episode and it may not be appropriate |
| 1:11.2 | for all audiences. |
| 1:13.0 | Okay, so after this past week, I'm having trouble with the premise of our podcast. |
| 1:18.0 | So I think we should tease that out a bit more. |
| 1:21.0 | What exactly is it we're doing here? |
| 1:22.0 | At its most basic, we're trying to |
| 1:24.4 | understand why so many millions of people have been so deeply |
| 1:28.2 | enthusiastic about Donald Trump. A man who's promising to break up the old order, but with few specifics about what the new order will look like. |
| 1:36.5 | Because whatever you think of Donald Trump's message, it's not like it came out of thin air. |
| 1:41.5 | Whatever he's tapped into, it has been with us and it will be with us until we confront it. |
| 1:46.8 | So we've been meeting some of his supporters and trying to understand their life experience, |
| 1:50.7 | but at this point, I'm kind of out of patience with them. |
| 1:54.1 | Even our own warm-hearted Patty Dwyer. |
| 1:56.6 | I mean, this guy has now bragged about routinely sexually assaulting women. |
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