Republicans are flooding the zone with phony outrages

We've Got Issues

English - March 05, 2021 00:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
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Previous Episode: Ari Berman on the new Jim Crow | GOP desperate to move on from Jan 6

Next Episode: Study finds Democrats and Republicans actually do live in different worlds

This week, right-wingers were outraged over an inaccurate report that Hasbro was making Mr Potato Head gender-neutral, furious that Dr. Suess's estate decided to stop publishing a handful of his books and offended by Joe Biden claiming that Republican governors who rejected public health officials warnings and lifted their states' mask mandates were engaged in "Neanderthal thinking." Joshua Holland finds their never-ending supply of nontroversies exhausting.

Then we're joined by Tess Owen, a senior writer at Vice, to talk about how Republicans' desperate efforts to draw a false equivalence between violent right-wing extremists and their favorite bogeyman, antifa, threatens to derail the quest for accountability for the January 6 insurrection.

And finally, we speak with The 19th's Ko Bragg about her piece looking at the women who participated in the Insurgency of Dunces.

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