Hello everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.

And I'm Matt Levin in for Kyrisdahl.

Thanks everybody for joining us on this Thursday, March 28th.

Yes, we are almost through another month,

and today we are almost through another month,

and today we are going to listen to some audio

from some stories that Matt and I have been working on

and thinking about this week.

And so the first clip actually comes from make me smart well sort of adjacent

anyway on Tuesday we interviewed nPR Sarah McCammon on the show and this is a clip from the book that she was talking about well at

least the audio book the ex-Vangelicals. The crowd took on its own energy as

Trump pointed toward the risers and cameras at the back of the room

complaining about those disgusting reporters who were the worst people. This quickly

became part of his stick, a highlight of every rally.

So I was listening to Sarah's audio book

and that clip in particular jumped out at me

because she was on the campaign trail with Trump in 2016 and was talking about how the language got increasingly

violent and angry and there were

concerned about their safety.

So that jumped back to my mind earlier this week when I was digging into some archival tape on C-SPAN looking at

old campaign rallies of George H.W Bush from 1992 and I want to play a

clip from that. The guys with the cameras and the long boom mics and carrying the burden out there

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