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Start Making Sense: If Donald Trump Loses, Will There Be Violence?

Plus: The life, and death, of Sandra Bland.

Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

May 5, 2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets supporters after a rally on Thursday, April 28, 2016, in Costa Mesa, California.(AP Photo / Chris Carlson)

When Hillary Clinton defeats Donald Trump in November, his millions of supporters will be told that their American birthright has once again been stolen from them. Rick Perlstein talks about the potential for violence in the streets after election day.

Start Making Sense is hosted by Jon Wiener and co-produced by the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Plus: What really happened to Sandra Bland? To understand that, you have to begin way before she died in a Texas jail. Debbie Nathan reports.

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Jon WienerTwitterJon 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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