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Trump Voters and the Power of Twelve Angry Men

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to blogger Aneela Mirchandani about what the classic movie Twelve Angry Men can teach us about Trump supporters, the psychic permission Trump gives to his voters, and the archetypes of people that keep a con going. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.7

don't talk about that anymore. You know, when this came out, it was quid brokwell. Well,

0:39.6

there was none. The path that we are going on now in terms of an inquiry of impeachment

0:48.9

is that this is nothing that anybody takes any satisfaction in.

0:55.3

Looks, the Constitution gives the accused the right to remain silent. And clearly, Donald

1:01.7

Trump has never read the Constitution.

1:07.7

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, I'm Virginia Heffernan. So I've made no secret of the fact.

1:13.0

I've always wanted to say, I've made no secret of the fact. It's such an exciting run-up,

1:18.3

but I have to warn you, it's kind of boring. I've made no secret of the fact that I'm disproportionately

1:23.6

interested in how cultural artifacts, like novels and movies, speak to the sprawling stories

1:29.8

of Thanos, I mean Trump. When trying to collect my thoughts, you guys know I'm as likely

1:35.2

to do the right thing or the Avengers do the collecting of thoughts for me, then to leave

1:40.4

those sprawling thoughts to my own poor powers to add or detract. I've never once studied

1:45.6

political science, what is political science? And yes, I did that wasteful PhD in English,

1:51.1

and thus, I'm forced by trade to think that fiction as an organizing principle is better

1:57.7

than fact. And fiction as fiction is the best. Study a lot of novels and poetry, and you're

2:03.5

way less likely to become enchanted by the thin, dry fiction with that adderol effect,

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