How to Avoid the Neo-Nazi Pothole

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🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Christian Picciolini, a former neo-Nazi skinhead and musician who now works to disengage others from virulent bigotry and hate cults. He talks about his indoctrination into—and exodus from—the racist movement, neo-Nazi strategies of the 80s and 90s, the history of anti-racist skinheads in the U.S., and the psychology and needs of cult hoppers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a very sad day for our country within the past 24 hours.
0:04.1	We've seen the President of the United States say in his
0:07.1	delusional state, we've rendered the curve on this, we
0:10.0	bounded the term, we haven't.
0:12.0	We've heard his chief of staff tell us what the eyes who I'd
0:16.2	open, as you said, this is a decision.
0:18.5	They do not intend to control the virus.
0:24.0	Over 225,000 people have lost their lives to the virus.
0:30.1	They name those lives lost the coolest way possible.
0:34.7	Along.
0:36.1	This is probably one of the greatest mass casualty events in
0:39.5	the history of our country, short of World War II.
0:42.2	And we need leadership that is not reckless, but responsible.
0:48.8	Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.
0:50.4	I'm Virginia Heffernin.
0:52.0	It is Tuesday, a new Supreme Court justice hellbent on
0:55.5	annihilating healthcare and voting rights was sworn in
0:58.6	under cover of night at the White House.
1:01.0	Her confirmation process has been driven by outsized
1:04.1	Republican corruption and hypocrisy and this furtive
1:07.7	Halloweeny swearing in ceremony on the South lawn, which
1:11.0	doubled as a Trump campaign event was the perfect
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