Why Extremism is WINNING in America

The Chris Cuomo Project

Chris Cuomo

News, News Commentary, Politics, Government

4.6 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Monday’s mass shooting in Manhattan prompts Chris Cuomo to dig into what he believes is the real root cause: a culture of extremism that’s been supercharged by social media. Cuomo examines how algorithm-driven outrage, partisan politics, and a warped incentive structure are creating an environment that fuels radicalism — not just abroad, but at home. From CTE and mental illness to algorithms and ideology, Cuomo warns that America’s growing appetite for destruction is no longer just rhetorical. It’s being acted out in real time, and unless we recalibrate what we reward in our politics and culture, the violence will only escalate. Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday: https://linktr.ee/cuomoproject Join Chris Ad-Free On Substack: http://thechriscuomoproject.substack.com Support our sponsors: Head to https://www.tryfum.com/CUOMO and use promo code CUOMO to get your free gift with purchase and start the Good Habit today! Upgrade your wallet today! Get 10% Off @Ridge with code CUOMO at https://www.Ridge.com/cuomo #Ridgepod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	People do not want to deal with why we just had this mass shooting in Manhattan, but we have to.
0:07.1	And the answer is upsetting, and it pisses people off, and that's too bad.
0:19.4	I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project.
0:22.7	What happened in Manhattan is not about one guy, okay?
0:26.9	I don't care what his name is.
0:29.2	We all know how this story is going to go, okay?
0:32.5	Either he was sociopathic or psychopathic, he had mental illness.
0:38.5	That used to be the end of the analysis, okay?
0:41.9	I've been doing this a long time, old enough to remember the first real school shooting, Columbine,
0:48.1	where I spent months trying to understand the dynamic that led to it.
0:52.1	And then it happens so often that we basically just boiled it down to too many guns,
0:57.4	too many mentally ill people, and not enough done in society about it,
1:01.3	and we're just an angry group of people.
1:04.9	And we just blame the mentally ill.
1:07.9	The mentally ill are more likely to be victims of violence than assailants.
1:12.6	Being mentally ill does not mean that you want to kill everybody, okay? That is a caricature,
1:18.4	that is a fiction. We have to go beyond that analysis. All we know is that being mentally ill
1:27.4	may make you more susceptible to suggestion because of your illness, because of your disease.
1:38.0	So it doesn't matter whether or not you're mentally ill.
1:41.3	It still matters what you are exposed to. And extremism is killing us.
1:50.4	Extremism poisoned the mind of this most recent assassin every bit as much as CTE may have or any mental illness he actually had.
2:03.6	The extremism has to stop being dismissed as a, yeah, or as an also, or as a sure,
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