Kurt Andersen on 'Fantasyland' thinking about the pandemic and America's long-held taste for mistruths

Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter

English - June 26, 2020 22:08 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MB - ★★★ - 775 ratings
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"Believe-whatever-you-want fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA," journalist Kurt Andersen wrote in his 2017 book "Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire." Brian Stelter asks him to apply the lessons of "Fantasyland" to the Covid-19 crisis. Andersen also discusses the American affinity for "ultra-individualism," Trump's disconnect from "reality-based" Americans, and the impact of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

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