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It's Complicated

What's So Complicated About the Mainstreaming of Hate

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Asha and Renato talk about: the rise of anti-Semitism and its normalization in mainstream media and by elected officials; how Republicans will run the House; plus how to deal with right-wing family members. Subscribe to our podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/its-complicated Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Its.Complicated/ Subscribe on Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Its.Complicated/   Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Asha's Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/Follow Renato on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@renato.mariotti   Opening Theme and Bumper music provided by eitanepsteinmusic / Pond5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

M-S-W media.

0:08.3

So, Asha, what is driving the rise of anti-Semitism and white supremacy?

0:14.0

It's complicated.

0:17.0

I'm Asher Renga, I'm a former FBI Special Agent

0:22.0

and teach national security law at Yale University and I'm a legal and national security analyst.

0:27.5

And I'm Renata Mariati. I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer and a legal analyst.

0:34.3

And we're here to help you understand topics that can't be boiled down to a sound bite or a tweet.

0:41.8

So Renato.

0:45.8

You know, we're having this national conversation right now because Trump, once again,

0:51.4

has been engaging in in this time in pretty direct dialogue with

1:01.7

white supremacist Nick Fuentes who he had to dinner at Maralago along

1:08.5

with Conyay West who has recently been in the news for his anti-Semitic comments.

1:15.8

And so, you know, we're really focused on Trump

1:19.9

and his normalization of white supremacy and the silence of Republicans and

1:26.3

condemning it but I'm curious what your take on this is and you know how much broader we need to expand this conversation?

1:36.5

Well I will say I think that first of all I didn't know who the heck Nick Foyes was. I don't know if I was alone on that one. I'm like, who is this guy?

1:46.0

Watching a bunch of clips of him talking, I mean he seems to be not only like, you know, it's one thing to say someone's white

1:54.2

a white supremacist or anti-Semitic is another thing like this dude is like

1:58.5

really proud of it and very outspoken and is out there trying to win over others to his cause.

2:07.6

Like yes I'm proudly racist, I'm proudly anti-Semitic.

2:10.8

He was there at Charlottesville, that notorious time when, you know, Trump

2:15.5

said there's good people on both sides. So, you know, this guy is a preacher of

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