Welcome to Democracy-ish. I'm Danielle Moody.

And I'm with Jopathy.

And we have another fabulous guest in our docket today to, you know, discuss our continued crumbling democracy

with some bright spots of how we're all staying same and not losing our mind while

Republicans are pushing us to the brink. Waj, please do the honor.

Our pleasure to finally introduce to the podcast, Jared Yates Sexton. You all know

him from the fantastic muckrake podcast, which you have to listen to every week. He's also a best-selling

author. His last book was American Rule. And his latest book is coming out in January. It's called

The Midnight Kingdom, A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis. And specifically, he's called the Midnight Kingdom, a history of power, paranoia, and the coming

crisis.

And specifically, he's talking about how we've seen the same three villains, if you will,

Daniel, political power, religious indoctrination, and economic dominance as the foundational

concept of this thing called the West.

Hmm, sounds pretty familiar. And how this is

intertwined and how this explains the right word lurch towards what I call fascism. But Jared might

disagree with me. Let's see. Jared, welcome to the podcast. Hey, thanks for having me. All right,

let's get right to it. The Midnight Kingdom, it's your upcoming book. The subtitle is

A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis. All right, so of all the multiple crises

that we are facing. Which one are you talking about? Yeah, yeah. The one that you, let's talk about

politics first, right? You're talking about politics, religion, and economics. Let's talk about the

political crisis. You talk about this often on, and economics. Let's talk about the political

crisis. You talk about this often on Twitter. I recommend everyone follow you. You've been sounding

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