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When Political Economy Mugged Us

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In this Trumpcast Plus preview, Virginia Heffernan talks to prolific author Kurt Andersen about Evil Geniuses, his latest New York Times bestseller. Only Slate Plus members get to listen to every Trumpcast episode in full. Sign up now to access every Trumpcast episode and support the show.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.1

And thanks very much for listening.

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

0:35.1

I'm Virginia Heffernan.

0:36.5

I am increasingly obsessed with this photograph of Kimberly Gillfoil.

0:43.3

Of course you all know her as the consort to the president's eldest son, Don Jr., very

0:48.3

proper and normal person who left his wife and five children in 2018 and came out as Gillfoil's

0:54.0

escort around the same time.

0:56.3

But the photo of Gillfoil I'm obsessed with is not from 2018 or even 2020 and definitely

1:03.2

not from Monday night at the Republican National Convention where she shouted to the heavens

1:08.1

like Medea about something apocalyptic and terrifying and worthy of extreme volume.

1:14.0

I'm sure.

1:15.2

But something I didn't get the content of because I watched with the sound off and only

1:19.5

the parodies.

1:20.5

Anyway, quickly I turned to this other photo from way back in 2004.

1:29.2

It's part of a glossy, expensively shot spread in Harper's Bazaar of what the magazine

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