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The Muckrake Political Podcast

The Escalating Radicalization Of The Right

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Nick Hauselman and Jared Yates Sexton discuss Fox News’s plummet in ratings, the escalating radicalization on the Right, and welcome writer, journalist, and veteran Jerad W. Alexander to talk about the effects of America’s Forever Wars and the coup attempt at the Capitol. To support the show and unlock additional content and episodes, become a patron at http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast

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0:00.0

Trump loyalist Marjorie Taylor Green.

0:04.0

She's voiced support for executing Nancy Pelosi.

0:08.0

Is she fit to serve and should she be on the Education Committee?

0:12.0

I don't think we ought to punish people from a disciplinary standpoint, a party standpoint,

0:17.0

because they think something a little bit different.

0:27.4

Republicans let themselves be hijacked by Trump, and now Trump is gone and no one has stepped in, right?

0:28.3

So we have a situation where the Republican Party is largely governed by whoever's the loudest.

0:34.7

Hey, everybody.

0:35.9

Welcome to the McGrack podcast.

0:55.7

I'm Jared Yates-Saxston. As always, I am joined by the one and the only, Nick Houseman. We have a special guest today. We're going to speak with veteran, journalist, and the author of volunteers growing up in the Forever War, Jared Alexander, about, you know, the effects on culture and countries when you have wars for longer than a generation, what it does to people

1:01.8

and how you end up with, I don't know, radicalized people all rushing the capital and

1:08.0

joining militias and other radicalized groups.

1:12.0

So that'll be in a little bit.

1:18.2

But before we get there, Nick, we have to have a conversation about what's going on right now. It feels a little bit like there's some movement in terms of COVID relief packages.

1:26.4

Like maybe we're starting to figure out, I don't know how to vaccinate people.

1:29.9

But in the meantime, there is a continued sort of malevolent, underpinning, bad feeling to

1:38.4

our political ecosystem.

1:40.5

We have the right, which is continuing to march off its fascistic cliff. God knows what Donald Trump is up to. We have the right, which is continuing to march off its fascistic cliff.

1:44.8

God knows what Donald Trump is up to.

1:47.3

We have a bleeding conservative right-wing media apparatus in Fox News that is just hemorrhaging viewers at this point, which tells me, and I assume it tells you as well, that they're going to have to go

2:01.0

further right and embrace people like our good friend Marjorie Taylor Green and beliefs of

2:07.7

Jewish space lasers. So I assume... We all got one for our bat mitzvizs, the bar mitzvizs? I assume it's

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