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The Road to Partisan Violence in America / Lilliana Mason

This Is Hell!

This Is Hell!

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Chuck interviews political scientist Lilliana Mason on her books on partisan violence in the United States. We also introduce this week's Question from Hell!, and the weekly Hangover Cure. Producer Sebastian talks about why it's really better to not use the term "Kristallnacht" to talk about the pogroms against German Jews on November 9, 1938.

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0:00.0

This company, this site,

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the site, it's not the only

0:03.0

it's complete the tight

0:05.0

and that a solution need a Make it back! This is hell.

0:31.0

hell. This is hell.

0:35.0

Oke-Doke. This is not the media.

0:40.0

This is hell. And this is definitely not the media because if it was the media

0:48.0

we would not be having a guest on the show who would be pointing out that

0:51.0

partisans from both political parties have shown a dramatic increase

0:54.7

in political violence since the 2016 Trump for President campaign began.

1:00.1

And if this was the establishment corporate mainstream media,

1:03.2

whether privately owned or a public outlet,

1:05.4

you likely would not hear evidence of Republican political violence

1:08.8

being driven not only by former President Trump, but a decades-long conservative campaign to stoke

1:15.4

partisan animosity, fear, hatred, sexism, racial grievances, and white supremacy,

1:20.4

while partisan Democratic Party political violence is the outcome of racial inequality

1:26.2

and voter suppression.

1:27.9

This radical political partisanism fueling violence, as we will learn from today's guests, finds its roots in

1:34.7

political and personal traits which predispose some people to be more radical

1:39.1

than others, especially partisan social identity strength and trade aggression and these orientations

1:45.2

manifest in aggressive political behaviors as well as attitudes.

1:50.8

Radical partisanship is fueled by aggressive personality traits, strong partisan attachments,

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