Liz Cheney in the Wyoming Primaries and White Supremacy in Southern California

Liz Cheney in the Wyoming Primaries and White Supremacy in Southern California

On this week’s episode of Start Making Sense, writers John Nichols and Gustavo Arellano join to discuss the upcoming election in Wyoming and a history of the right wing in Orange County.

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Liz Cheney is way behind in the polls leading up to next week’s Wyoming primary. John Nichols went to Wyoming to see her in action, and reports that she’s “fighting to outlast and replace Trump as the manager of the right-wing franchise in American politics.”

Also on this week’s show, a deep dive into Orange County, Calif. Ronald Reagan once called it “the place all good Republicans go to die.” But there’s another history of Orange County. Los Angeles Times columnist and author of the new book A People’s Guide to Orange County, Gustavo Arellano explains that, just as there’s a history of white supremacy and right-wing power, the OC also has a history of people—especially immigrants—leading a resistance.

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