The American Republic Survived Trump

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i agree that too many people went along with it. There were, there were mad theories going around. Almost none of it has stood up since. Withit the hacking of of the d and c, there was continuous assa upon our democracy with a kind of infor information warfare campaign from russia. So it was certainly plausible to think that this might have been a russian conpemat of some kind. You know, again, it's not a crazy allegation on the cona. I think it is. But, but let me just return to this issue of the laptop,. i it's important in terms of this issue of trust in american politics, which disturbs

Sam Harris speaks with Douglas Murray about his new book, “The War on the West.” They discuss the problem of hyper partisanship on the Left and Right, the primacy of culture, Hunter Biden’s laptop, the de-platforming of Trump and Alex Jones, the new religion of anti-racism, the problem of inequality, the 1619 Project, history of slavery, moral panics, the strange case of Michel Foucault, and other topics.

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