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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It’s been only a couple of weeks since the No Kings 3 protests, but we can see now how protest and resistance are changing in America: that one it wasn't just bigger than the previous No Kings. It was different: Deeper and more connected. Rebecca Solnit argues that to understand resistance and change today, we need a much longer perspective than a couple of years. Her new book is The Beginning Comes After the End.
Also: Minneapolis made history with its mobilization against ICE. But what about the rest of the state, where the immigrant population has been growing for a couple of decades? What kind of resistance has developed there? Emma Janssen went to small town Minnesota to find out. She’s a writing fellow at The American Prospect.
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