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American voters are comfortable with fascism - unless it's expensive

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

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Bread, Circuses, and Political Failure

James applies Juvenal's bread-and-circuses metaphor to Trump's racism, cruelty, and spectacle, arguing that voters turned against him when economic promises failed.

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