America’s Descent Into Madness, w/ Chapo’s Felix Biederman & Rania Khalek

From his perch at the Chapo Trap House podcast, Felix Biederman has been an acerbic observer and commentator. He joined Dispatches with Rania Khalek for a wide-ranging discussion about America’s cultural and political decline. 

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TIME CODES: 

0:00 Intro 

1:18 Why does America have so many mass shootings? 

6:44 America’s loneliness crisis

12:38 Cowboy foreign policy 

14:37 Online left vs the grassroots real world

23:08 Reactionary Supreme Court 

26:59 MMA & physical fitness 

33:23 Growing political polarization & fears of civil war

37:18 Who will run for president in 2024? Do Democrats like to lose? 

43:50 War in Ukraine

53:03 Disingenuous far right

54:15 The obsession with culture

1:04:49 Media challenges on the left