MAGA Cruelty is Still the Point w/ Adam Serwer

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode of Fever Dreams features the brilliant Atlantic columnist Adam Serwer, whose new book—The Cruelty is the Point: the Past, Present and Future of Trump’s America—builds off a 2018 essay to examine how President Trump weaponized racism and white identity politics to build in-group belonging among his supporters, as has happened countless times before in U.S. history. Meanwhile, DOWN IN ARIZONA... Our intrepid co-host Will Sommer recently traveled to the Copper State to hang out with QAnon promoter “Baby Q” and see the premiere of former Overstock CEO and amateur election-fraud hunter Patrick Byrne’s new election movie, "The Deep Rig."

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0:00.0	Last minute party, what will I bring them something unexpected?
0:06.1	Let's play scratch cards.
0:09.3	Trying to find something a bit different.
0:11.4	Why not add some play to Christmas?
0:13.2	With scratch cards from the National Lottery.
0:15.4	Pick them up in store now.
0:16.6	Please gift responsibly. Rules and procedures apply.
0:18.5	Players and gifters must be 18 or over.
0:31.2	Thank you. Please gift responsibly. Rules and procedures apply. Players and gifters must be 18 or over. Hey guys. This is Aswin Tsub Singh, but please call me Swin. And welcome to The Daily Beast's Fever Dreams.
0:37.3	Hi, I'm Will Summer, a politics reporter at The Daily Beast, where I dig into all the darkest
0:41.9	recesses of American extremism and extremely online militants. I'm currently working on a book
0:47.3	about QAnon and its disastrous impact on our society. I'm also a senior political reporter
0:52.2	at The Beast and co-author of the book, Sinking in the Swamp.
0:55.4	I've spent years covering the intersection of entertainment and politics.
0:59.0	And in the post-Trump era, that seems like the only sensible way to cover politics in this beautiful, hideously stupid country of ours.
1:06.5	On this podcast, we're going to take you on deeply reported plunges into the sometimes hilarious, sometimes scary fanatics infecting the way that millions of Americans view the world and how they vote.
1:15.8	Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists,
1:20.4	the grifters, and the influencers is still pushing our mainstream political landscape closer
1:25.2	and closer to a breaking point. We're here to help you better understand how and why this is happening, and who in the halls of
1:31.3	power are letting it happen.
1:32.6	Along the way, we'll regularly bring on guests, including political pros, hard-nosed reporters,
1:38.0	and some influential voices from Hollywood.
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