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#396 w/ Chris Stirewalt "Fired by Fox, Fixing the News, Eating a McRib"

The Fifth Column

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What I Did Not Expect Was the Percentage of People Who Would Sincerely Believe Donald Trump

What I was not ready for was the degree to which people would go along with what Donald Trump was trying to do. What I failed to appreciate would be the number of people who would willingly abet him, even though they knew that it was wicked. And so this stuff is an amazing moment in history where there's, you know, it's almost Stalinist in the sense or any authoritarian regime.

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