Ex-GOP Rep: My Party Was ‘Beamed Up by Aliens’

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Former Republican Congressman and NSA official Denver Riggleman has wrote a book about BigFoot and studied terrorist groups. But his party’s fascination with QAnon? That perplexes him the most. He tells Molly Jong-Fast all about it in this episode of The New Abnormal. Then, Jacobin writer Luke Savage also joins to discuss Mitch McConnell’s fart-like legislating style and Zachary Karabell, author of Inside Money, explains why breaking up big tech companies may be more trouble than it’s worth.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Molly Jongfast and welcome to the Daily Beast, the new abnormal.
0:05.8	I'm a left-wing pundit and an editor at large at the Daily Beast.
0:09.6	We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media, politics, and science
0:16.4	that help make what's happening in the country and the world clearer.
0:20.2	Our world has been turned up to a down.
0:22.3	On the new abnormal, we'll talk about the people who got us into this mess and figure out how to get ourselves out of it.
0:29.0	And I'm producer Jesse Cannon.
0:30.6	I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails.
0:33.8	Today we have a super interesting episode with the former Republican Congressman from Virginia's fifth district
0:39.4	and former NSA employee, Denver Regulman.
0:42.5	And he's going to talk to us about the future of the GOP, Bigfoot, and QAnon.
0:46.7	Then we're going to talk to Zachary Carabell, the author of Inside Money, Brown Brothers, Haramon, and the American way of power.
0:53.3	But first, we have Jacobin writer Luke Savage to talk about his least piece for the Atlantic
0:58.5	if democracy is dying.
1:00.2	Why are Democrats so complacent?
1:02.3	Welcome, Luke Savage to the new abnormal.
1:05.0	Hi, Molly. Thanks for having me.
1:06.5	I am so excited to have you.
1:08.6	I read your piece this morning.
1:10.0	You know, it's so funny.
1:10.9	It's like this piece I'm talking about here is a piece in the Atlantic that's called,
1:14.7	if democracy is dying, why are Democrats so complacent?
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