Inside The Base, a Secret Neo-Nazi Group

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🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This past summer, while Ryan Thorpe was doing his day job as a reporter at the Winnipeg Free Press, some frightening posters started appearing around town. They were recruitment posters for a white nationalist organization known as The Base. Over the course of several weeks, Ryan went undercover. Joined the organization, met with a recruiter. What he didn’t know is that the person he met would become a target of law enforcement in two countries. Someone who prosecutors say was planning attacks here in the US. What does his story reveal about an international group of white supremacists obsessed with violence?

Plus, producer Mary Wilson checks-in with Slate’s Senior Politics Writer, Jim Newell, about the results of the New Hampshire primary.

Guest: Ryan Thorpe, reporter at the Winnipeg Free Press. Check out his story about infiltrating The Base, Homegrown Hate.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is What Next producer, Mary Wilson, chiming in briefly here before the show to talk to my colleague Jim Newell, senior politics writer for Slate about the primary in New Hampshire. Hey, Jim. Hey, Mary. Let's talk results. We've got Bernie Sanders, the winner with nine delegates. Pete Buttigieg coming in, a close second with also nine delegates. And Klobuchar, Amy Klobuchar, getting six delegates.
0:21.8	Is there anything surprising in there for you about who got which slot?
0:26.5	Yeah, I think if you look at the top three, so at least as of now, the percentages were
0:31.0	Bernie at 26 percent, Buttigieg with 24 and Amy with 20 percent.
0:37.3	And the big surprise there, although it's not the
0:39.9	headline of the night, the headline that is still that Bernie Sanders won, is that Amy Klobuchar
0:44.0	got that 20% because in the polling average leading into the night, she had been in about 11%.
0:50.9	So I think she had a really good debate Friday night. And I think maybe just with the way
0:57.2	Joe Biden was sinking, I think she may have won some of his voters and maybe taken a few away
1:02.7	from Pete Buttigieg as well. Would you call it her cloment? She really seized the cloment.
1:08.0	I mean, you can call it the Clovauchar or the clomint. That debate will
1:12.5	rage on for weeks going on. As we speak, Warren is 10 points behind Clobuchar, and Biden is also
1:19.0	behind Warren. And neither of them scored enough votes to win any of the available delegates in
1:23.8	New Hampshire. But they're going to stick around, right? Yeah, they're not going anywhere.
1:28.6	I mean, it's disastrous for both of them, honestly.
1:31.8	For Joe Biden, you've now gone fourth and fifth in the first two contests after, you know,
1:37.2	proclaiming yourself the guy who can beat Trump and you can't even win a primary or a caucus.
1:42.7	And there are different contests, but still, that's the impression that people will take away. It's also horrific for Warren,
1:48.9	because Iowa and New Hampshire, where she's now gone third and fourth in a row, these are good
1:53.8	states for her. These are not good states for Biden. But I think that fluidity of the field is also
2:00.5	what's keeping a lot of them in.
2:02.4	Even though Sanders is off to a great start and is, you know, the clear frontrunner right now,
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