On this episode of Start Making Sense, Steve Phillips challeges the conventional wisdom about the election, and Amy Wilentz reviews the latest on the Trump kids and their in-laws.
Donald Trump is greeted by his family after the third presidential debate on October 19, 2016. (Joe Raedle / Reuters)
Kamala Harris lost not because Democratic voters switched to Trump, Steve Phillips shows, but because of a massive failure of the Democrats to turn out their base.
Also: In a new episode of “The Children’s Hour,” Amy Wilentz reports on “the Rise of the In-Laws”—Ivanka’s and Tiffany’s fathers-in-law—and comments also on the rise of Eric’s wife Lara, and on the latest schemes of Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner.
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In June, Trump sent more than 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to occupy Los Angeles and terrorize the immigrant population. But by the end of July, almost all the Guard and the Marines were gone. Bill Gallegos explains how that happened and what other cities can learn from it.
Also: Bob Dylan fans have been puzzled and troubled by his Christmas album ever since he released it in 2009. To help figure out what Dylan was doing, we turn to Sean Wilentz. He’s author of Bob Dylan in America, and he also teaches history at Princeton. (Originally recorded in January, 2005.)
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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.