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26. Taking Stock: The State of American Democracy Heading into Summer

Is This Democracy

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CNN's Trump Town Hall: What It Tells Us

Sally Kohn: The big news media event since we last recorded was the CNN Trump town hall. She says it's pretty clear now that there were not good intentions and that there was a lot of pleading with Republicans to make sure that Trump showed up. Kohn: I've written three long pieces about how justifications for the Trump town hall reveals of deeper pathologies and fallacies that have characterized the Trump discourse twins since 2016. It's absolutely terrible, you know, in general, beyond CNN, you've seen these sort of arguments coming from across the political landscape.

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