Hey everybody. It's your host, Chair of Yates Sexton. Before we get to today's Muckraig podcast, I wanted to remind you that my new book, American Rule, How Nation Conquer the World but Failed Its People, is available now.

American rule is a deep dive into how we have arrived at this moment of crisis, about how the myth of American exceptionalism helped empower aristocratic white supremacy,

how we came to live in this bizarre world where reality seems to be splintering, and of course

how this current threat of fascism and the cult of Trumpism came to imperil us all and what

we can do to win the war for the future.

The truth is we have been held captive by lies about our past and exploited by the wealthy and powerful who rely on weaponized propaganda and appeals to a whitewashed history that never even existed.

If we're going to find our way forward, we must understand this and disabuse ourselves of these illusions.

Hopefully American rule, how nation conquered the world but failed its people can help you,

your friends, and your loved ones do just that.

And now to the show.

Welcome everybody to the Muckrake podcast.

I'm your host, Jared Yates Sexton.

And my co-host, Nick Houselman is enjoying

some much-deserved R&R before the upcoming election. But the show must go on. And boy, what a show we have

today. My guest, and we're very lucky to have this guest, is Dr. Mary Trump, psychologist and author of Too Much and Never Enough,

How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man.

Dr. Trump is, of course, the niece of the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump.

And her book is an exploration of his troubled upbringing and the dysfunctional family environment they were both raised in.

It's more than familial gossip, though. It investigates the mindset we're all currently suffering through.

A sociopathic pursuit of wealth and power coupled with dangerous and abusive overcompensation by a stilted unwell man.

Those of you who follow my work, listen to this podcast, and read my books, know that I firmly

believe that Donald Trump is only a symptom of a much, much, much larger disease.

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