Start Making Sense: Donald Trump, Master of Hate

Start Making Sense: Donald Trump, Master of Hate

Start Making Sense: Donald Trump, Master of Hate

The front-runner’s terrifying supporters, the state of the GOP field, and American Muslims and Trump.

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Cruz won two states on Super Tuesday, Rubio won one, and even Kasich almost won one—but the big winner of the night was the apparently unstoppable Donald Trump. Joan Walsh has more on the panic in the GOP establishment over Trump’s triumphs—she’s The Nation’s national affairs correspondent.

Plus: What Trump supporters really think. Sasha Abramsky interviewed a bunch of them; he reports regularly on politics for The Nation.

Also: Trump says he reviles Muslims and reveres veterans—but some vets have been speaking out in defense of the Muslims they know and work with. Laila Lalami has that story—she’s The Nation’s newest columnist.

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Start Making Sense Start Making Sense is The Nation’s podcast, hosted by Jon Wiener and coproduced by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts for new episodes each Thursday.  


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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