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DSR Network. I'm your host Greg Sergeant. over the weekend

weekend Donald Trump did a long interview on Fox News in which he flatly declared he had a right to interfere in the last presidential election.

He also mused aloud that God may have selected him to fix what he called our sick country

and said that we have an enemy within that's out to get him.

It's all unhinged vile stuff and it gets it a bigger story.

With two months to go before the election, Trump continues to speak almost exclusively to his

MAGA audience and to its various pathologies.

Anne Lutz-Fernanda, as a writer on politics and education, has a good new piece at the unpopular

website about MAGA in particular its shrinking obsessions and its escalating

self-radicalization so we invited her on to talk about how Trump is communicating

with MAGA these days. Welcome, Ann. Hi, great to talk to you, Greg. So Trump

did this long interview on Fox News with a very friendly host Mark Levin.

Let's start with what he said about his attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where you have every right to do it?

You get indicted and your poll numbers go up.

And I want to pick up on a line from your peace. You write that

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