I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the best-selling books, The View from Flyover Country, and Hiding in Plain Sight.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine.

And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States and rising autocracy around the world.

So what a week, man, what a week. We are going to get into Merrick Garland

and Joe Mansion and other walking failures. But first, I want to look at the big picture.

The Democrats are losing not only the policy war, but the narrative war, and they are losing

the country in the process, which means, more importantly, that we, the people, are losing

our country.

In 2020, I wrote that the Biden administration needed investigations and prosecutions

of three major Trump administration crimes. And keep in mind, there's a lot more

where that came from, but these are the big three in my opinion. The Biden administration has

investigated none of them. And as a result, our country is in even greater danger. Meanwhile,

crucially, the GOP has created vigorous counter-narratives for each crime.

And so the first one is the Trump administration's handling of COVID.

This was also managed by Kushner, Pence, Mnuchin, Miller.

We did a lot of episodes about the little insular crime cabal with absolutely no experience or interest in public health that was put in charge of managing a global pandemic.

And so what did they do?

They let the virus spread.

They hijacked PPE.

They profiteered off of people's death.

They shook down states.

They threatened governors and so on. And so obviously,

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