WTF Happened in 2021? w/ Thomas Frank

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Hear the ad-free episode at http://usefulidiots.substack.com 2021 was a shit show, so who better to help us dig through it than friend-of-show Thomas Frank, author of Listen Liberal and What’s the Matter with Kansas. So what happened in 2021? Democrats and Republicans definitely both sucked. Covid got better and then a lot worse. Dems didn’t do the one thing to ensure they’d never lose another election. And politics turned from policy to pure culture war. We go through it all, why it happened, why it sucked, and what it means for 2022. Plus, Biden’s giving up on Covid (and has something in his throat), Republicans embrace unemployment for certain people, and a sad announcement before a final penis story. It’s all this, and more, in this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. And become a subscriber to get the ad-free version and an extended interview on Monday. You're helping independent journalists with funding, legal fees, and more. Happy new year, from Useful Idiots! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, welcome to a kind of sad day of use,
0:10.4	the litigates.
0:11.4	We're a new day, depending on how you like.
0:13.6	It's both.
0:14.6	It's a new chapter.
0:15.6	I don't want to say it's the end of an era.
0:17.6	It's like a pause of one era and inauguration of a new era.
0:23.2	It's a between era.
0:24.7	It's between era.
0:26.5	Eradish.
0:27.3	It's a new era.
0:28.5	Right.
0:29.3	And I hope everyone watching this is sitting down or listening to this is sitting down.
0:34.8	Now you may not be.
0:35.8	Well, maybe parachuting.
0:37.8	Maybe parachuting and the lot.
0:41.1	You may be afraid of like heights.
0:43.3	And so you want to do something that engages you like watch your favorite show so that you're
0:47.8	not distracted by following.
0:51.2	I see.
0:52.2	So if you're doing, if you're trying to do like a high wire act, this is what you'd be
0:56.2	listening to in order to call on your nerves.
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