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Trumpcast: How to Avoid the Potholes of Neo-Nazism

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🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Christian Picciolini, a former neo-Nazi skinhead and musician who now works to disengage others from virulent bigory and hate cults. He talks about his indoctrination into—and exodus from—the racist movement, neo-Nazi strategies of the 80s and 90s, the history of anti-racist skinheads in the U.S., and the psychology and needs of cult hoppers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a very sad day for our country.

0:02.2

Within the past 24 hours, we've seen the President of the United States

0:06.4

say in his delusional state, we've

0:08.6

rendered the curve on this, we've bounded the term.

0:11.0

We haven't.

0:12.1

We've heard his chief of staff tell us what the eyes

0:15.8

wide open as you said. There's a decision they do not intend to control the virus.

0:21.6

Over 212 control the virus. Over 225,000 people have lost their lives to a virus.

0:29.0

Many of those lives lost in the coolest way possible, alone.

0:36.0

This is probably one of the greatest mass casualty events

0:39.3

in the history of our country short of World War II.

0:42.2

And we need leadership that is not reckless but

0:44.3

responsible.

0:48.3

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast I'm Virginia Heffernan. It is Tuesday. A new Supreme Court Justice hell-bent on

0:55.4

annihilating health care and voting rights was sworn in under cover of night at

0:59.8

the White House. Her confirmation process has been driven by outsized Republican

1:04.7

corruption and hypocrisy and this furtive Halloween swearing-in ceremony on the

1:09.8

South lawn, which doubled as a Trump campaign event, was the perfect culmination of all the rancid

1:15.8

Republican court trickery of the past four years.

1:20.0

Amy Coney Barrett, handmade in the People of Praise cult now joins Beer Enjoyer,

1:25.8

Brett Kavanaugh, who was never thoroughly background checked in spite of evidence of criminal

1:30.3

misconduct. And she also joins Clarence Thomas,

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