I'm Sarah Kanzir, the author of the best-telling books, The View from Flyover Country, and Hiding in Plain Sight.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine.

And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States and rising autocracy around the world.

And so there's been a trend over the last few months here in the United

States of amnesia, which is the erasure of the Trump crime cult's history by both the media

and by officials, including a near total lack of accountability for the January 6th attack on the

Capitol. Instead, media outlets and politicians have drowned themselves

in debates over Dr. Seuss, Mr. Potato Head, or Mrs. Potato Head, I don't know what the hell it's

called because it's a freaking plastic potato, and other trivialities that they are redefining as

culture wars. There's a lot to say about the difference

between the right-wing depiction of quote-unquote, wokeness versus, say, civil rights and

historical accuracy, or for that matter, the difference between, quote, cancel culture and

accountability. For example, it's not cancel culture when a publisher pulls Josh Holly's book

about the evils of big tech after he encouraged a violent attack on the country that he's supposed

to defend. And it's definitely not cancel culture when another publisher picks up his book,

and Holly brags that his book on the evils of big tech

is number two on Amazon.com. That's just hypocrisy culture, but I digress. Want to know what

cancel culture really looks like? It looks like intimidation, excessive litigation, and attempted

censorship. And it's happening right now

to Catherine Belton, the author of the critically acclaimed book, Putin's People, which came out

last year. Putin's people describes how Putin rose to power alongside KGB Lackeys and a coterie of

oligarchs, who then proceeded to strip down the former USSR

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