QAnon and the Republicans, Plus Ireland and the Irish

QAnon and the Republicans, Plus Ireland and the Irish

In this episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, Chris Lehmann analyzes GOP politics and Fintan O’Toole talks about his “personal history.”

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“The government, media, and financial worlds in the US are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation”—that’s QAnon’s crazy idea, and 30 million Americans say they mostly agree. Chris Lehmann comments.

Also: Fintan O’Toole’s personal history of Ireland since the 1950s: how a country dominated by a corrupt Catholic church came to legalize gay marriage and abortion—by referendum. His much-honored ‘personal history’ of Ireland, titled We Don’t Know Ourselves, is out now in paperback.

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Jon Wiener Jon 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.


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