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The Muckrake Political Podcast

Trump Speaks, The Market Crashes

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Literally every time Donald Trump addresses the coronavirus bad things happen. The stock market craters. Lives are put at risk. Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman examine the last few days of chaos, including the nightmarish press conferences and Republicans profiting off the pandemic. Author and historian Sarah Churchwell stops by to talk about her essential book Behold, America: The Entangled History of 'American First' and 'The American Dream' and how authoritarian rule in America isn't so farfetched.

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0:00.0

It may work and it may not work.

0:05.1

And I agree with the doctor what he said, may work may not work.

0:08.8

I feel good about it.

0:10.2

It's all of this.

0:11.2

It's just a feeling.

0:12.2

You know, I'm a smart guy.

0:13.8

I feel good about it.

0:14.8

What do you say the Americans were scared though?

0:17.7

I guess nearly 200 dead, 14,000 you're sick. Millions, as you witness,

0:23.7

who are scared right now. What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now, who are

0:27.4

scared? I say that you're a terrible reporter. That's what I say.

0:32.1

And it is a fact. It is extremely well established by historians, and quite recently, actually,

0:37.0

in the last five to ten years, but it's very well established that Hitler learned from America, not the other way around.

0:46.5

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake political podcast. I am your co-host, Jared A. Sexton. I am here with my loyal and wonderful co-host, Nick Houselman.

0:56.1

We got a lot to talk about today.

0:58.0

Just a quick reminder at the end of this podcast, we actually have an exclusive interview with

1:03.5

Sarah Churchwell, who is an expert in American history and authoritarianism and fascism and has some pretty dire stuff

1:13.5

that we need to hear particularly at this point. She is the author of Behold America, the Entangled

1:18.3

History of America First and the American Dream. So we will be talking to her at the end of this

1:23.7

podcast. In the meantime, Nick, it's been a rough week. I assume the people listening

1:31.8

have had rough weeks as well. Society has basically gone into hibernation, save for some people

1:38.0

on the beaches and out having brunch, I guess. How are you hanging in there?

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