My Own Private (Nazi) Idaho, Feat. C.J. Ciaramella
Fever Dreams
The Daily Beast
4.4 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Is this the country’s most off-the-rails local Republican party? This week, Fever Dreams checks in on the Kootenai County, Idaho GOP, where local leaders are accused of trying to force a hostile takeover of the local Democratic party, and install an antisemitic troll as the new Democratic leader. Plus, we bring you the latest from Mar-A-Lago, where Donald Trump is making angry phone calls about his floundering social media site, Truth Social. We’re also joined by Reason reporter C.J. Ciaramella, who tells us about the FBI’s secret collection of police brutality statistics—and why those numbers might never see the light of day.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Fever Dreams. My name's Will Summer. I'm a political reporter at The Daily Beast and the author of an upcoming book on QAnon for Harper Collins. |
| 0:07.8 | And I'm Aswin-Sub-Tang, but please call me Swin. I'm a senior political reporter at the Daily Beast and co-author of the book Sinking in the Swamp. |
| 0:15.2 | All right, here on Fevered Dreams, we're going to take you on plunges into the sometimes hilarious and sometimes scary world of the American right as they continue to influence our politics. Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, |
| 0:25.4 | the energy of these conspiracy theorists, these grifters, and these influencers is still pushing |
| 0:30.5 | our mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point. Kelly Weil, |
| 0:35.1 | do you realize that we are now approaching the one year, the actual |
| 0:38.5 | full year anniversary of the Fever Dreams podcast? It feels like we just started and also that |
| 0:45.0 | this has been part of our daily lives for about a decade. Right, exactly. You're describing |
| 0:50.0 | the emotional sensation you get when you have children. And this podcast, no offense to our |
| 0:54.3 | actual children, is kind of like our children. Absolutely. About equally demanding, I would say. |
| 1:01.3 | Right. Just so our listeners know, for those interested, on Wednesday, March 23rd at 2 p.m. Eastern |
| 1:07.8 | Time, we will be hosting a Twitter space to celebrate the one-year anniversary |
| 1:12.3 | of Fever Dreams. Our producer, Jesse Cannon, will be joining us, among others. And who knows, |
| 1:18.5 | maybe we'll even conscript this guy named Will Summer to come join in on it. I think he was a part |
| 1:24.3 | of something that had to do with our podcast at one point in time. |
| 1:28.1 | Who knows? |
| 1:28.7 | I do recognize the name. |
| 1:30.3 | It'll be fun. |
| 1:31.0 | It will be like a live show, except people can hear how often we break into weird digressions about old TV and movies I've never seen. |
| 1:39.7 | So have you ever done it Twitter spaces before, Kelly? |
| 1:42.2 | I showed up in one, and because there was a blue check, people made me speak, which was really |
| 1:46.8 | uncomfortable. I'm like, I didn't prepare remarks. But no, they're fun. They're rad. It's just a nice |
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