The Biden Reckoning Will Be Tweeted; plus, Interviewing Nazis with Elle Reeve

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Elle Reeve, CNN commentator and author of the new book Black Pill, joins Offline to share her reporting on the darkest corners of the internet. For over a decade, Reeve has tracked the emergence of the alt-right, watched them radicalize on sites like 4chan and 8chan, and documented their migration off the web and into the streets of Charlottesville and halls of the Capitol. She and Jon talk about how this new brand of white nationalism feeds on male loneliness and white resentment, the schisms within the movement, and its implications for politics. But first! Jon and Max unpack the last few weeks of Dem Drama®. The guys critique the debate discourse, explain why social media forced this conversation to happen, and reveal why Jon is finally disabling some of his Twitter notifications.

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0:00.0	Chris Cantwell, he's the person I interviewed in Charlottesville, he went on to be known as the crying Nazi.
0:05.0	I interviewed him right after the rally in a hotel room.
0:10.0	He was boasting about how a lot more people are going to die before we're done here.
0:15.6	He had all these guns, but at some point he starts talking about how, you know, it's hard for him to date.
0:23.4	You know, like, his life hasn't been easy since he's taken on the burden of defending the
0:27.6	white race.
0:28.6	And when he goes out with a woman, he wants to have popcorn and watch a movie and not talk
0:32.4	about race war. how hard that is.
0:35.5	And my producer in that room, Tracy Jarrett, a black woman goes, are you sad?
0:41.3	And he starts crying.
0:42.3	He's like, yeah, I'm sad. It you just heard from today's guest
0:59.6	journalist and CNN correspondent Ellie Reeve.
1:02.8	Some of you may remember Ellie from her days at Vice News,
1:05.7	where she embedded herself with white nationalists
1:08.1	at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
1:11.7	Since Charlottesville, Ellie's dedicated her career to covering the rise of the alt-right.
1:16.0	And unfortunately for all of us, there's been lots to cover.
1:19.2	She just wrote a phenomenal new book called BlackPill, How I Witness the Darkness
1:23.0	of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society,
1:26.1	and Capture American Politics.
1:28.4	Very offline title, right?
1:29.8	Yeah, we have a daily practice here
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