The Overreaction Doctrine

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Political scientist Moshe Maor says Donald Trump's policy ideas are very, very over-the-top. But that's exactly the point. On issues like immigration and transgender service members, bold overreactions are the only kind of policies that speak to cynical voters. "People want immediate action," says Maor. "Morality aside, Trump is playing his cards right." Maor is a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In the Spiel, is Donal Trump a smart racist or a stupid racist? Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at Slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.1	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:37.8	It's Wednesday, August 16, 2017 from Slated to the Gisdy Mike Pesca.
0:42.6	Donald Trump, a Queensborne Manhattanite immigrant marrying businessman,
0:47.7	has officially lost the support of Queens Manhattan immigrants and business men and business women.
0:52.8	The CEO of Campbell Soup leaves. You knew the president's going to have trouble holding his business council together.
0:59.9	Remember how much he said he liked the soup.
1:01.9	Thank you, Mr. President Denise Morrison from Campbell Soup Company.
1:05.3	Nice. Good soup.
1:07.2	But as much as the defecions are good for those like me who think the Trump agenda needs to be
1:12.7	thwarted in every way, the horrible comments he keeps making about Nazis and their equally
1:18.3	culpable counterparts, the anti-Nazis. They're just so disheartening.
1:23.6	Trump seems to think the false equivalence of Nazi and anti-Nazi.
1:26.8	That's going to get him somewhere.
1:28.4	But just judging by general discourse, I don't hear anti-Nazi being put in the same category as Nazi.
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