Hi, it's Andrea here on your podcast feed with something extra.

With the end of voting rapidly approaching, I recently sat down with my colleague Kai

Wright, host of the podcast, and now weekly radio show, the United States of Anxiety,

at a virtual event hosted by the Green Space, the WNYC.

We discussed the tattered state of democracy, the encroaching oligarchy, racism, nativism,

voter suppression, and how Donald Trump's central principle of us versus them has infected

almost all of American government.

These are things we think about a lot.

We call the conversation Who Matters in America 2020?

And we talked about the Trump presidency and this campaign through the lens of my book,

American oligarchs, the questioners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power, and

through the long lens of history, Kai and the United States of Anxiety team employ every

week on their show.

I guess let's start with the biggest question we had at the night, which is, you know,

Who Matters in America?

And you said something about Donald Trump on Arseneau, actually, the week of the Republican

National Convention that I kind of want to bring us back to here.

You know, I mean, he has said certainly in this election, he's made it fairly clear

that who he's saying matters are suburban residents, particularly white suburban residents.

He sort of changes whether he's trying to bring people of color into that or not, but

he's explicitly saying, OK, well, I'm talking to you are white suburbanites.

And it's interesting because, you know, you mentioned that he has such a long and unique

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