Hey folks, it's Reid. Listen, we're seeing videos and hearing reports that Trump crazies

are intimidating voters as they try to drop off ballots and vote early. It's wrong and

it may be illegal. They must be stopped and held accountable. So I need you to do two

things. First, if you or a friend feel threatened, call the non-emergency number of your local

police and report them. Second, call the voter protection hotline 866-hour vote and report

any and all issues you see at the polls. Memorize this number, store it in your phone,

text it to your friends. There will be a team of voting experts standing by. Gang, we won't

get through this if we don't get through it together. Next week, we're going to win,

but we won't do it without you. And now on with the show.

Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reid Gaelen. Today, I'm joined

by award-winning journalist Kyle Spencer, whose latest book, Raising Them Right, the untold

story of America's ultra conservative youth movement and its plot for power is now available

wherever fine books are sold. In addition to her books, she contributes to a number of

outlets including New York Times and Politico Magazine. Today, she's coming to us from Brooklyn,

New York. Kyle, welcome. Well, thank you for having me read. It's a pleasure.

So as I told you before we started, this book, it's 280 some pages and every last one of

them is worth the read. There's so many things, the cow palace, 1964, Barry Goldwater, and

all the libertarian nerdy kids who loved him. This is where it goes back to, right? When

we think about this stuff, I think often Kyle, we get stuck in that, well, Trump came

down the escalators seven and a half years ago and that's where all this started. But

I'll tell you, even as someone who grew up in the Republican Party, but was an operatives

kid, right? So it was never an activist. I never wanted anything to do with being a young

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