This Is Fine

Welcome to This Is Fine, episode 1.1: WTF? This is Not Fine! Thank you very much for listening. In this week's podcast, we ask: How the fuck did that happen? How heroic really were Wright Patman and other segregationist Democrats who fought against corporate power until the changing of the Democratic guard in the 1970s? How did Trump make hate taste so great to so many? And what are our views of the horrific near future and how we might combat it? Remember: please try to not kill your relatives at Thanksgiving, and please send us reader questions for This is Fine, 1.2: argumentum ad populum, where we say populism out loud a thousand times until it becomes a meaningless collection of syllables. Articles discussed in this episode: Matt Stoller, "How Democrats Kiled Their Populist Soul" http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/how-democrats-killed-their-populist-soul/504710/ Rembert Browne, "How Trump Made Hate Intersectional" http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/how-trump-made-ha